In my own computer program (not my website) I have the ability to place all
biographies of ancestors of one person together. They are placed in order of
the year of birth.
In other words, I _must_ have a year of birth, even if I don't. What I was
able to organise was that I would enter a year of birth (guess work of
course) together with a "flag".
What this did was all would work as though that year was the correct year,
but the year was not shown anywhere. Would you be able to do that? That
could/would solve your problem?
Best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis Beauregard" <no@nospam.com.invalid>
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: What to do with unknown places ?
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:35:58 +0000 (UTC), jthiggins@sbcglobal.net
("John Higgins") wrote in soc.genealogy.medieval:
You say that "My data structure and validation process are such that I
must
always have a date" and " I won't change my validation process". I'm not
sure I fully understand what is meant here. Does every person, or every
event, require a date, or just some cases?
A part of my validation process:
I have the couple A married to B. A is the son of C married to D.
A must be married at least 16 years after his parents (12 years for
a daughter). Otherwise, I study that case closer. I check that
children are born after the marriage of parents. When the parents
are not married, I use the date of birth of the child they had
as a basis for a virtual year.
At this time and for a while, all my medieval data set is made of
linked couples, i.e. lines to someone living later. So, I must
always have that 16 or 12 years gap between the marriage of parents
and that of children.
My process is good when there is data to support it, but with
medieval years, it is common to have no date of wedding.
Denis
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