On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:06:39 +0000, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: >I am quite used to having to enter a "Birthdate" when what I am actually >searching for is a Baptism (yes, Ancestry, I'm looking at you) and now I >find the "Date of Death" of many of my relatives is recorded amongst >FMP's Hampshire Burials records. I *presume* the dates shown are >actually of Burials but there is nothing in these transcriptions to >indicate of what, exactly, these are transcriptions. Again, I can only >*presume* they are of PRs or BTs (but which?) but maybe they are from >something else. I've has a similar problem with some thing's I'm copying from someone else's tree. She has access to the original church records and I don't. She strikes me as a careful researcher, so I think the information is accurate, but I still find it odd when she has entered the name of the church in the Birth field in the GEDCOM file she sent me. That could be in the Source field, yes, but the person was surely not born in the church. So I just leave it out. But with burials, what do I do? If it appears in the death field, there would surely be only a very few cases where the person died in the church, so I put it in the burial field, and if it has a date like 15 May 1740, I put the death date as May 1740. If the date is 1 May 1740, I put the death date as Abt Apr 1740. In most cases (before refrigeration) burial took place within a couple of days of death, though in places with harsh winters they may have stored the body in a shed somewhere until the ground had thawed enough to be easy to dig. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/