An accurate family history should have Before, After or About "standard" date in the date field and explain the source date (Q of registration) in source text or notes. Some of the online database searches seem to work better with a single (best guess) year estimate than a wide date range. A few children were baptized or christened a second time when the family moved to a new church.
A page with great-grandma's birth date was cut from her family Bible, date stamped by the pension office and neatly taped back in place. Legacy book index has an option to include bbbb-dddd dates and wall chart applications usually have that option for compact charts. Word processor family books sometimes give one index listing for every individual with the same name like John Smith. Non-standard dates may result in the whole event being ignored when a Legacy GEDCOM is opened in another genealogy program. There are also some variations in the way that partial dates are sorted. Year only for burial may show ahead of a specific death date. Legacy 6 allows backwards between dates like 1850-1805 as new data entry even though the yyyy-mm-dd date format was fixed after the final build of Legacy 5. 1851-1930 census data for Canada and USA has a wide variation of birth dates for relatives who had specific dates/locations of events in old family history notes. Some people were assumed to have been born in the district where they grew up and others assumed to have died near the cemetery where the name is on a gravestone. A registration office might have been miles from the farm house and the birth registered months later. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: <syoung > Abt and qtr are NOT equivalent, and one should not replace the other. > That's a behavior change that should be discussed with the users before > implementing it...or at the very least, announced when the change is made. 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
