Hi JK By all means copy my use of the actual census date for BEFs and AFTs - I probably got the idea from someone else in the first place ;-) If you need a full list of dates, try http://rmhh.co.uk/dates.html, though I see 1911 release date hasn't been updated yet. Re: entering GRO quarter dates - if I see something along the lines of "Bet Jan-Mar 1850", I tend to recognise it as GRO entry. I also record the district, vol and pg details in the notes field. It's another reason why I try to find the corresponding baptism (or burial) and adjust the date range accordingly. It's always interesting hearing how others record information - thanks :-) Heather J K gen wrote: > All this makes excellent sense, although not so sure about the ones > you use for the GRO entry. It is possible for a birth to take place > some considerable time before the quarter of registration. Indeed even > a death can have occurred some time before its registration, if there > was a delay caused by a post mortem, or criminal charge for example. > > Perhaps one could use Bet Jan-Mar 1850, but insert "reg" (for > registered) before the place data. > > One of your suggestions (using the proper date of the census) is very > good indeed, may I copy that? I only ever say "bef 1841" or "aft 1841" > for example, yours is more precise. > > JK > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM, The Quineys <pquiney@post.com> wrote: > >> Hi Brian >> >> I use: >> >> Bet Jan-Mar 1898 (BMD) when I have found the GRO entry but haven't >> ordered the certificate >> Bet 01 Jan - 15 Mar 1898 (B) when I have the GRO entry and a baptism >> date (I also have another entry for the baptism itself) >> Bef 15 Mar 1898 (B) when I have a baptism date only when I cannot >> know for certain how old they were at their baptism >> Aft 2 Apr 1871 (D) when I lose the person after a census >> Abt July 1905 (D) when I have a burial date but no actual death date >> (like baptism, I have another entry for the burial details) >> Bef 6 June 1841 (D) when I cannot find them on any census and have to >> asssume that they died before the 1841 census >> >> I'm sure that there must be other prefixes you can use. If anyone has >> some more, I would be interested as well :-) >> Heather >> >> >> >> Brian Binns wrote: >> >>> Family Tree maker, the most widely used family tree program, doesn't let you >>> put in anything other than a date or the word "about" - then the date. >>> Does anyone out there know how to put in the relevant qtr for BMD's? >>> >>> Brian Binns >>> >>> >> >> Notts Surname List >> >> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > >