I would still like a Medical field that would read right. Miss version 4? that had the little boxes you could check. Don't want to use an outside program, want it all in one place. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Dick Wells" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FO] Rootsmate - a wish - Birth vs Bapt & Christ. Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:42:40 -0600 Folks, With the current features in FOW, you have missed the obvious solution. FOW has a BEFORE date. Birth is before the Christening or Baptism, or any other event. Just add the Birth fact using a BEF date. Example: Known info Christening 4/25/1825 Baptism 6/7/1835 Just add Birth Bef 4/25/1825. It is the same way for Death and Burial, but using the AFTER date option. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Blackburn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Rootsmate - a wish > Having noticed the thread on baptism, that's what I would wish for too. My > ancestors on one side are English and they have baptism, not birth dates, > although a few do have birth dates also. > > My American dictionary does make a distinction between christening and > baptism - christening is the naming but baptism can apparently be done at > any time and it admits the person to the Christian community. In England > the baptism (which perhaps in England means the same thing as christening) > was supposed to be done the first Sunday after the birth, I believe, but I > do have ancestors who weren't baptized until age seven or so. The churches > kept BAPTISM records, not BIRTH records and I have struggled for a long time > with where to put these baptismal dates. > > My latest solution has been to just enter the baptism date where it says > birth date even though I know it is wrong. I don't feel comfortable doing > this and I wish they would give us a choice of baptism or birth. > > Lois > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ Anne (Percival) Kruszka _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com