Dear Max van Dam, my remarks were not directed to you, but to all. I just took your mail because of the good descriptions of the 3 abbreviations for the DATE approximations and added the remaining syntax for DATE approximations because some of the replies included informations which are not in conformance to GEDCOM. Even those users staying just with BK should use the GEDCOM syntax for the DATE approximations. best regards Diedrich (Hesmer) Am 27.03.15 um 11:19 schrieb Max van Dam: > Dear Diedrich Hesmer, > > I do not understand your remarks. I have only reacted how I use BEF, AFT and > ABT. I do not use other abbreviations. > > In my website BEF, AFT and ABT comes these abbreviations correctly over in > the other languages too. See for example Raphael Salomon Hofsteede. So my > gedcom gives what I wish in this case. I have no experiences with other > programs than BK and HUMO-gen. > > With my best regards, > > Max van Dam > Rechovoth > Israel > > http://www.maxvandam.info/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Diedrich Hesmer via > Sent: 27 March 2015 13:01 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BK] DATE and GEDCOM - was [How do you (discussion, not > enquiry) express dates with the BEF(ore) tag?] > > Dear all, > > let me take the note from Max van Dam and the GEDCOM question someone noted. > In addition to the 3 described abbreviations GEDCOM allows: > 2 DATE FROM Date > 2 DATE TO Date > 2 DATE FROM Date1 TO Date2 > 2 DATE BET Date1 AND Date2 > 2 DATE CAL Date > 2 DATE EST Date > > and DATE may be: > YYYY for the year > MMM YYYY for month (3 letters) and year > DD MMM YYYY for day month year > > This is for the ged-file, not necessarily for the BK input. BK may convert > some input strings to correct GEDCOM syntax during GEDCOM export. > CA, CIR, BET 1820-1825 or others are not allowed in ged-files and may be > lost during transfer to another PC with a different genealogy program. > Only in case the importing program has sufficient features build in, the > dates will be taken correctly. > > best regards > Diedrich (Hesmer) > http://ofb.hesmer.name/gedcom