On 12 Feb 2006 at 22:15, Dave Naylor wrote: > On 12 Feb 2006 Gary Griffin wrote: > > > Is anyone else having problems with sorting children by birth order > > when using the new Quarter date format? > > I'm curious why you would use the date of the registration of the > birth as the date of birth. The birth may have been before that > quarter (almost certainly so if registered on the first day of the > quarter) and, as in some instances of early registrations in my tree, > may have even occurred a year earlier. > > I use the quarter dates for the date of the *event* of "Birth > Registration". For the birth date I use "Bef. (the first of the > month of the next quarter)". So for a registration date of 2Q 1930 > I'd show the birthdate as Bef. 1 Jul 1930.
And I show it as "Abt May 1930", being in the middle of the quarter. Owing to the expense of birth certificates, many of us have to make do with approximate or calculated dates of birth for all except direct ancestors, and the nearest approximation is the registration date. So it would be nice to have the registration date sort. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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
