>When I enter "1922/1943" in the first Residence, PAF complains "Dual >dates exceed 10 years". > >Thoughts? Suggestions? Just ignore it. This is a fault of PAF. Unfortunately, our programmers did not understand the correct use of the / between dates. According to the Chicago Manual of Style, the / is used only between two consecutive years, such as 1744 and 1745. In genealogy this is used primarily between the two years when the calendar changed from Julian to Gregorian which resulted in a date that could be expressed in either year. / means either/or. For a *range* of dates, which is what you are entering, an en dash (not a hyphen) is used, although people who don't know that use a hyphen. An en dash is close to the length of two hyphens, and we can set our word processing software to create a solid-line en dash when we type two hyphens. If you type 1 or 2 hyphens in PAF, when you press enter it will convert that to the / , which is wrong if the two years are not consecutive, and if teh range is over 10 years, you will get that annoying message. Why they picked 10 years, I do not know. The range of years you describe is very useful when entering data in PAF, especially when you are building the info for a person, and each new piece of info might help you narrow down that range. For example, you know a woman is between 13 and 50 when a child is born, so you give her a range of birth years based on that. Then you find another child, and then her range of birfh years narrows. I use this method all the time. A work around is to enter "1842 to 1875" (without the quotes). Then you get another annoying message that the date you entered is not standard. But at least PAF does not change what you entered to the wrong separator. Joan Lowrey