In message <[email protected]>, Vicki L. <[email protected]> writes: [] >I find a married man without his wife in the 1910 census.  I show her >as died BEF 1910.  Next I go to the 1900 census and there she is.  So I >change her to died BET 1900-1910. I didn't know about BET - is that a GeDCom standard? I'd use BK's facility to enter two dates (in BK6, you double-click on the date box, though it sometimes seems to need a couple of goes to bring up the two-date box). [] >I usually share my information via Register Report rich text files.  I >do a global find and replace for BEF, BET, AFT, CIR so people new to >genealogy won't get confused.  Makes the report read better, too. [] Sounds good. As for CIR, I tend to use it in preference to ABT, though I have used some. (Similarly, I tend to used Baptised rather than Christened, though might be influenced by what the source uses.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Listen, three-eyes, don't you try to out-wierd me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. (Zaphod Beeblebrox in the link episode)