Hi John, When I replied to Jeff, I had not received John Steed's or Otto's replies and so was asking for clarification of the query. Confusion caused either by time zones, or Yahoo mail going funny, again. Regards Steve On 08/03/2015 09:48, J. P. Gilliver (John) via wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Steve via <[email protected]> > writes: >> Hi Jeff, >> >> I've just run this on my tree and showed up 24 typos as in century of >> death before century of birth ( oops! ) but nothing relating to ages of >> siblings and I have siblings where there is a gap of over 10 years >> between them due to absence of father. >> >> So I'm not too sure what you mean. > [] > As John has explained, it's 6½ months, not years - and it's a minimum, > not a maximum (i. e. siblings born closer together than that _probably_ > indicate an error - though it can happen, in which case it can be > excluded from future checks). > > 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 > . >