I use the notation ???? if I only know the year, or put ?? for the day if I know the month. For GRO dates I use 99 for the day and the month number for the Quarter. for example 99061854 for Q2 1854. This translates to 99-JUN-1854. It's my own notation, but I know what it means. In the notes I put the full GRO reference On 16 June 2015 at 07:43, J. P. Gilliver (John) via <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Andrew Jackett > via <[email protected]> writes: > >Hello John Steed and forum users, > > >I enter my dates into BK7 databases using Type 7 (from the manual) i.e. > >15-JUN-1954 with European date input. > > >The entering of most dates is self-explanatory, but I’m not sure how > >to enter an incomplete date when only month and year are known... > > >Do I enter as ?-JUN-1954 or as __-JUN-1954 or as JUN-1954 ? > > __061954 (or, for approx. 20th century only, __0654). > > ...and what about dates to indicate 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarters of a > registration year? ... > > BK has no way of showing quarters (something I've requested before) - so > enter ____1954 and put Q3 in the event note (that's what I do, anyway). > > Do I enter as (2) 1954 or as (2)-1954 to indicate registered in > Apr-May-Jun of 1954 ? > > As each of these options gets a notice marked in red as ‘Invalid date’ > I am none the wiser as to which is the preferred method of expression in > BK. Does it matter? > > I think provided it has done some expansion (e. g. from __0654 to __ JUN > 1954), you can ignore the red warning. > [] > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > TV and radio presenters are just like many people, except they tend to wear > make-up all the time. Especially the radio presenters. - Eddie Mair, in > Radio > Times 25-31 August 2012 > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:04:21 +0100, Spicer Bob via <[email protected]> wrote: >I use the notation ???? if I only know the year, or put ?? for the day if I >know the month. For GRO dates I use 99 for the day and the month number for >the Quarter. for example 99061854 for Q2 1854. This translates to >99-JUN-1854. It's my own notation, but I know what it means. In the notes I >put the full GRO reference if you use 99 and other similar unlegal figurcombin ation you also make error in gedcom for those who will import your data -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014