I try to use "Est" when I am making a logical guess about a date but have no solid information and "Abt" when I can narrow the date down to a couple of years. Elaine Oakes

Hi Elaine: How folks enter data into their family history program is a personal choice. Where they might run into a problem is if they make a Gedcom for TR didn't edit it. The former Temple President of the Anchorage Alaska Temple told us in a FHC Staff Training Meeting that many TR disks are unreadable because the Temple's program that reads the disks cannot read them because of unacceptable/extra words or characters. He said to always use Abt. instead of what many of us used to do - ca (circa). So, because my database started with the very first PAF program offered, and I haven't gone back and made those edits, when I make my TR Gedcom, I edit it before I take it to the FHC to make sure it conforms. He said extra punctuation will cause the disk to be rejected as unreadable at that temple and it will have to be sent to a temple that processes Cyrillic languages. Have you heard of that in your area? Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine Oakes" <eoakes@blueridge.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] living status >I try to use "Est" when I am making a logical guess about a date but have >no > solid information and "Abt" when I can narrow the date down to a couple of > years. > Elaine Oakes > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > AVG Anti-Virus Users > Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > >

>>How folks enter data into their family history program is a personal >>choice. Where they might run into a problem is if they make a Gedcom for >>TR didn't edit it. I just found a table of date abbreviations in the PAF help menu. I would assume that as long as you use one of those abbreviations you should be fine with TR, but I guess I could be wrong. Melanie