Enter the part you are sure of in Sources (or wherever) and put your
"best guess" and why you are guessing in Notes. Then when you can prove
or dis-prove the fact the Notes are very easy to clear. I doubt if this
is Standard but it is what I do.
Barbara
Peter Chalmers wrote:
As we're discussing "standard" ways of entering things, how do people
enter information (other than dates) that they're not sure about? For
example, I'm busy going through census entries and adding them to
Legacy. In a number of cases, either the given name or a middle
initial is not easily readable and I have to make a "best guess".
Sometimes it is corroborated elsewhere later, sometimes it isn't. At
the moment, in order to mark the fact that I'm not very confident
about a name I enclose it in angle brackets e.g. "John <B.> Smith" -
but I'm sure this'll have some disadvantages that I won't find out
about until I've got hundreds of them to change :-)! Any views?
Thanks,
Pete C.
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