Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-17 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
How easy...  lol     Laura           -     - Original Message From: Nicholas Cirillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:01:03 AMSubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Laura, This is not in the thread but I'm very i

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Laura Schumacker
TECTED]>To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:01:03 AMSubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Laura, This is not in the thread but I'm very interested in how you exported your family file to Excel. Did you send the entire file or just the name? Could you

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
t; appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > - Original Message > From: ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:33:27 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates > > > Ca

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Myrna Jorgensen
Hi Laura,     Everyone has their own way of doing things and this is mine.   When I receive information from others (internet, friends, etc.) and they have tried to come close to a date of an event they will usually say "abt" or "ca." I will put my best 'guesstimate' as "est" so that I know

RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Cary
nday, October 16, 2006 7:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates   Thanks for the feedback.  I understand there are risks in estimating dates in my family file, but the reason I want to do this is that I am at a point that I have hit a brick wall (or s

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
nal Message From: ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:33:27 AMSubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Cathy,We use pretty much the same system except I use Abt for, say, dob calculated from a census or similar - general

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
ytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Thanks for the feedback. I understand there are risks in estimating dates in my family file, but the reason I want to do this is that I am at a point that I h

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Laura Schumacker
TED]>To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.comSent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:33:27 AMSubject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Cathy,We use pretty much the same system except I use Abt for, say, dob calculated from a census or similar - generally it means to me =/- 6 to 12 months and Cir for BM

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:53:28 +0800 A calculated date to me is different from an estimated date. You may estimate a date on assumptions such

RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: "William Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:42

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Cathy
A calculated date to me is different from an estimated date. You may estimate a date on assumptions such as those give by Ronald. You can calculate a birth date, for example, from the date given at death or in a census. I use Cal for dates like these. I use Abt for approximate dates given by re

Re: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread Jenny M Benson
ronald ferguson wrote Personally, I don't use calculated dates in my data although, obviously, I need to estimate these when looking for bmd information etc. Generally you will find that a man is 3 to 5 years older than his spouse and a couple marry around 2 years before their first child is b

RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread William Anderson
Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Laura, You will have to work out the estimated dates for yourself.

RE: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-16 Thread ronald ferguson
mshaw/ __ From: Laura Schumacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Estimating Dates Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:36:07 -0700 (PDT) I have

[LegacyUG] Estimating Dates

2006-10-15 Thread Laura Schumacker
I have many people in my tree in which I do not have dates of birth or death.  Is there I way that I can get estimated dates to calculate and appear in my family file?   Laura Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, ple