Mary: >From what I can tell, the program actually accepts any (single) date in pretty much what format you enter it, although it follows the order format that you have selected (day-month or month-day), You can enter dates as 4/8/2006, April 8, 2006, Apr 8 2006, etc.
If you enter Feb 3, 1750/51 it saves it as 51. I just tried, and it will accept 1750/1 as a literal. In other words, it won't change it to February if you have selected full month name. In my test, I entered this date as a baptismal date for someone born in 1862. the 1750/1 format didn't object to the bap date earlier than the birth date, but the 1751 date did. Jennie --- Mary Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/8/06, Melanie Armstrong > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just want to be able to put dates in > > my file the way I find them so if I find a date > such > > as Feb 3, 1750 I can put it in that way. But, if I > > find a date such as Feb 3, 1750/51 I would like to > be > > able to use that one also. This would keep all of > my > > information the same as the places I found the > > information. > Would you expect to use, say, 3 Feb. 1750 and 3 > Feby 1750 and Febr. > 3 1750 and 3rd Feb. 1750/51, etc.? > The program sees one date format as "correct" and > the others as > incorrect. So we must use a standard format. You can > add a note to > explain the original version. > regards, > Mary Young > ----- > 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/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
