J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > > Interesting that, as well as the third month which is the standard way and the first which I have seen, > someone in this thread (for what seems like a very sensible reason) uses the middle month - so all three are > in use. The original post (which I am starting to wish I hadn't made) was a cut & paste from a FreeBMD result and contained all the information needed to obtain the relevant certificate from the GRO (or whatever they call themselves now) certificate ordering website. There are plenty of 'newbies guides' available if anyone isn't aware of the FreeBMD recording convention - and how one records a GRO reference on one's own personal family tree program is surely optional and subjective. If the event's not important enough to get the certificate with the exact date, then anything else is hairsplitting. Enough already ! -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

In message <b7om4sFemncU1@mid.individual.net>, Anne Chambers <anne@privacy.net> writes: >J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > >> >> Interesting that, as well as the third month which is the standard >>way and the first which I have seen, >> someone in this thread (for what seems like a very sensible reason) >>uses the middle month - so all three are >> in use. > >The original post (which I am starting to wish I hadn't made) was a cut I just used it as an example: that's why I deliberately didn't credit you, as you were just quoting the original reference in the approved manner. >& paste from a FreeBMD result and contained all the information needed >to obtain the relevant certificate from the GRO (or whatever they call >themselves now) certificate ordering website. There are plenty of Indeed it did - see above. And any newcomer to the hobby should learn fairly soon that something like "Jun 1888 2a 123" is such a reference. My point (in quoting it) was that if, say, the "2a 123" gets separated, what is left is "Jun 1888",, which could easily mislead. >'newbies guides' available if anyone isn't aware of the FreeBMD >recording convention - and how one records a GRO reference on one's own >personal family tree program is surely optional and subjective. If the >event's not important enough to get the certificate with the exact >date, then anything else is hairsplitting. > >Enough already ! > -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Radio 4 is one of the reasons being British is good. It's not a subset of Britain - it's almost as if Britain is a subset of Radio 4. - Stephen Fry, in Radio Times, 7-13 June, 2003.