Jim,
If you are doing UK genealogy and using the FreeBMD indexes of
Birth/Marriage/Deaths from 1837 on, they only report that the event
was REGISTERED in a particular quarter: March, June, September, or
December. You need to order the actual certificate from the GRO or
wherever to get the exact information.
In L6, a new sortable date format was introduced to allow you to
enter these dates. As in December Q 1892. It sorts as 0 October 1892.
Have you also noticed (or you will with next general release...) that
incomplete dates will now sort differently? Before, if you had an
incomplete date - like 1900, about 1900, June 1900, about June 1900,
it would sort towards the middle of the period it was referring to.
Now it will sort at the beginning of the period it is referring to so
that it behaves similarly to what is expected by 3rd party programs.
An example of an issue is if you sort the events for an individual
and one event is dated June 1900 and another was 5 June 1900, Legacy
would sort the June 1900 AFTER the 5 June 1900. With this change, it
will now sort before. This was causing some problems with birth dates
and baptisms and death and burials where the sequence was
biologically obvious, but the program sorted the events in an
inappropriate sequence.
Please note that there was a rationale for doing it the other way. On
average, by placing the date in the middle it would be more accurate;
however, it could also create impossible results when sorting.
OK?
john.
At 01:24 PM 5/2/2006, Susan & James Bruckman wrote:
Please explain Q dates!
Jim B
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] "Q date" format problems...was: Descendant narrative
bug?..Yes it is
Jon,
The problem that has been fixed is the sorting of Q dates. These have
been fixed so that they now will always sort to the beginning of the
quarter they represent. Eg, June Q 1852 will now sort before 1 April
1852. Otherwise, if you had a Baptism from the IGI of 10 April 1852
and a FreeBMD birth date of June Q 1852, when you saved the person
Legacy would give you a warning message that says the data might be
wrong and do you want to keep it.
john.
At 09:48 AM 5/2/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Sherry,
>I'm changing the subject line here. In your reply yesterday, you wrote
that
>there have been "some problems" with the Q date format and those bugs are
>being fixed in beta.
>
>Other than the report output problems I stumbled upon, can you tell us
what
>other, if any, aspects of Legacy are being affected? Put
>another way, is the
>Q date format only affecting report output or are other problems present?
>If it is the latter, that might affect database intregrity.
>
>Regards,
>Jon Raymond
>St Paul Park, MN
>Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/
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