Event between two dates

Keith Wilson · Post by **Keith Wilson** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:14 pm

Originally posted by Peter L

Hi

I have some ancestors, three brothers who died during the First World War. I cant find details of their service records as most of the documents were burnt during a bombing raid in 1940. All I know is that one died in France, another brothers regiment name and that they all died sometime between 1914 and 1919.
How should I best record the information I have.

Peter

Keith Wilson · Post by **Keith Wilson** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:21 pm

I would enter it as an about date, say " abt 1916" and then add a Note like " Died in WW1 between 1914 and 1918 - probably in France"

You could enter the event place as " France?"

Keith

Keith Wilson · Post by **Keith Wilson** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:32 pm

Originally posted by Peter L

Keith

I see. So the about date gives a rough death age.
Thats fine, thanks.

Peter

Keith Wilson · Post by **Keith Wilson** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:28 am

You can enter an " about date" or simply enter Y if you know the person is dead but have absolutely no idea at all about when he/she died.

In some functions, like exporting data, reporting and (now) creating web pages iFamily really needs to know if someone is alive or dead - for privacy of information purposes. If a person has no birth date and also no death date then iFamily has to do some estimating based on his/her near relatives. This 'estimating' function is inefficient, slow and time consuming - so if you enter date (an approximate birth or death date will do) then iFamily has less work to do.

Keith