Yes, I have done the same for NSW births - I can't recall if they were DOB
before 1900 or after.
Regards, Ian
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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Hi Graham,
Yes - have done this on a number of my own family but most of the NSW and Vic
BDMs I have were researched and collected over the last 30 to 40 years - that
wasn't an option back then! :-(
Regards ... Susie Z
September 29, 2017 12:11 PM, "Graham Lambert" wrote:
> Do you know that f
Do you know that for most NSW BDM's, you can now zero in on the precise
date by trial and error by testing with half years, then months, then
days etc.
Graham
On 29/09/2017 8:28 AM, Susie Zada wrote:
Hi Folks,
As many of my BDM references are in New South Wales or Victoria in
Australia, unl
Calculating birth date from death records doesn't get correct results
though. The age given at death might not
mean you get the year of birth correct. It may be off by a year or on
occasions several years.
Some church records may be that accurat, but definetely not all.
Anne
From: Lega
Hi Folks,
As many of my BDM references are in New South Wales or Victoria in
Australia, unless I have purchased the certificate or have other reliable
references I am restricted to the indexes. For those states, only a year of
registration is given. Unless you are able to interpret the registrat
I suppose I could call those calculated dates but since I only use a
year in those kind of calculations I prefer about 1834 instead of Calc
1834. I reserve Calc for dates when I can figure out the day month and year.
Brian Kelly
On 28-Sep-17 3:38 PM, JV Leavitt wrote:
Brian, are you not basing
Brian, are you not basing the date on a calculation? Why not use the
term Calculated instead? If I see the term About, I don't automatically
think it is meant to mean plus or minus a year or two. My experience
tells me that yes, I know it can very often mean plus or minus a year or
two, or-- it
On 28-Sep-17 06:50 PM, Brian Kelly wrote:
Because there is no setting for that prefix but the programmers have
hardwired code in the program to allow it then decided themselves how it
would be used in reports and displayed on screens.
But there ARE settings for various other prefixes but that
Personally I've never used Est, I prefer Abt. But whatever we use, it
shouldn't be changed to Cir without our knowledge. Recently some of my
dates (but not all) are being changed to Cir. And someone told me, it must
be because I originally used it. If so, it must be 15 years and several
programs ag
Goes to show it is anybodys guess. We obviously use it differently.
For me I use about when I have a pretty good idea of when they were born from
age at death. age in a census
or age at marriage, whereas Estimate I use when I am making a guess on the year.
Like I know that a couple have 5
Estimate and about are synonym as far as I'm concerned. I always try to go
back to the source since that's what it's based on.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Brian Kelly [Masked] <
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> Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two.
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> This can be a birth
Because there is no setting for that prefix but the programmers have
hardwired code in the program to allow it then decided themselves how it
would be used in reports and displayed on screens.
Brian Kelly
On 28-Sep-17 1:23 PM, Martha Graham wrote:
Hello,
I noticed the discussion of using the
Like Anne I use "about" when I know the date within a year or two.
This can be a birth year based on the age stated on a census, birth year
based on declared age on a marriage record or any other dated document
which includes a declared age. When multiple documents give different
dates I use t
I think it is defined differently for each one of us, and that's okay as
long as we are consistent and we let our "audience it's accurate, but
not exact. I use estimate when it is a wild guess just to get me in the
right area then it becomes to me +/- 25 years.
Elmer
On 9/28/2017 10:37 AM,
Hello,
I noticed the discussion of using the various words for a date that is
not really known.
Michelle said that Est could be used. Well I tried it and after typing
'Est' and hitting the enter key, 'est' was the result.
Why? I have all settings I can find set to 'do not change what I enter'
Est will work even though it isn't listed.
Michele Simmons Lewis, CG
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On 28-Sep-17 03:37 PM, JV Leavitt wrote:
I'm very disappointed that the term Estimated or Est is not included in
Legacy's Date Prefix options.
I thought there would be a workaround for this, in that for Options 5.7
in the box for "Displayed" next to "Circa, Cir or C" one could type
"Est" and
I don't know what others consider about as, but use it when I for example
see an age
given in a census. In the 1801 census I use for Norway age is often given
and if it say someone
is x years old, it migt often mean they were born x+1 or x-1 year so I use
about.
Also if I in the marriage record f
Does anyone know what the term "About" means when used with a date?
Everyone seems to have a different idea about the level of credibility
to give it. Many think it must be within a few years, and don't think
of it as being a wild guess (which so often turns out to be the case),
but I'm not a
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