Regarding the various other calendars given. I agree with the analysis, but I have just converted my various dates to Gregorian for simplicity. The translation of Chinese dates to Greg belongs in notes. It is obvious that mixing calendars on the same person will give bad ages, and Errors of vast size. what is the problem. We should complain to Julius, Gregory, Lao-tsu (?), Napoleon, and the aztec kings who brought this on. We just have to live with it.
> [Original Message] > From: John Bayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 6/28/2003 2:21:06 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Double Dating > > Henry Sutliff wrote: > > > Unfortunately Legacy only permits double dates for this period rather > > than all dates (Jan. 1-Mar. 24) before 1752 as I believe it should. > > Henry I don't think this would be correct Double dates are only used > for the time from 1582 to 1752, according to this web page: > http://www.genfair.com/dates.htm > > According to that page, various calendars were used at various times > in europe. The's also the issue of the Hebrew and Chinese calendars > and the French Republican calendars. This gets rather complicated > rather quickly. I'd like to see a byte added onto each date in legacy > to allow the calendar to be specified. The default would be the current > Gregorian. This would also allow the sophisticated user to specify which > calendar was used for each date a person used. Such as a Chinese > immigrant born in China on a date specified by that calendar, and who > was married and died in San Francisco by the western Gregorian > calendar. In my database I have French Canadians whose BMD data > is all speicifed by the Gregorian calendar in the 1600s and I have > English colonists in New England whose dates are specified under > "British rules" meaning that throughout the 1600's they were on the > Julian calendar. If I change the cutoff date for one, I mess up the > other! FTM, like Legacy uses a cutoff date, but that is not good > enough. > > Henry also wrote: > > > I would also again like to request a box to check that says "died > > without issue." One frequently finds d.s.p. (decessit sine prole) for an > > individual. > > Henry, I don't understand where you want your d.s.p. box and why the > product's current "This Couple had no Children" box on the marriage > event page does not accomplish the same thing. Seems to me that > never getting married belongs properly on the individual display but > a d.s.p. thingie should be on the couple, NOT the individual. Until > cloning is done, it still takes two to make a baby. > > jr > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
