On 20 May 2006 at 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "...Aparently there is a British Organization that for decades kept (or > keeps) some records that are important to genealogists doing genealogy in > Brittain, that are Quarterly Dates..." > > Dates of b/m/d are reported to the England GRO on a calendar, quarterly > basis. This is not a "British Organization" but a governmental reporting > procedure. There was an earlier thread on this when I reported a problem > with Legacy reports not properly outputting "Q date" formats, a problem that > is supposed to have been corrected for the next update. You can search the > archives for that thread.
The other problem, however, is exporting the dates in GEDCOM format, as no other program can parse them for import. I use FreeBMD a lot, but I don't use the quarterly registration dates as birth dates -- I put that information in "Research Notes". -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://methodius.blogspot.com 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
