Drat this abbreviation

[Guest]

on Ancestry found a matching contact oh good I thought she has the death I'm looking for so clicked on it and it says B41877 so there I am looking in the Dec quarter of 1877 trying to find him but nothing ,then I twig she means before 1877 uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggghhhhhhh

[Loopy Linda in La La Land]

Sorry Val but that's made me laugh

Linda

[Guest]

snot funny ;Dactually I burst out laughing when I realised , at least its better than the ones that say Dead .

[Darksecretz]

pmsl Val!!!! that made me LOL...

[Guest]

glad it made you laugh Julie, its a first for me ,its bad enough when you get somebody born around 1850 and instead of giving the year they died they just put Dead??? I would hope so.

[Darksecretz]

glad it made you laugh Julie, its a first for me ,its bad enough when you get somebody born around 1850 and instead of giving the year they died they just put Dead??? I would hope so.

admittedly though I do put in a date if i know it, if I dont then I leave it blank...

[Guy]

Text speak is invading all aspects of life.
There perfectly acceptable abbreviations bef. (before), aft. (after), cir. (circa) or even abt (about), why complicate matters.

I much prefer some information rather than a blank. At least then one has a point to limit intial searches for the event.
Cheers
Guy

[Darksecretz]

Text speak is invading all aspects of life.
There perfectly acceptable abbreviations bef. (before), aft. (after), cir. (circa) or even abt (about), why complicate matters.

I much prefer some information rather than a blank. At least then one has a point to limit intial searches for the event.
Cheers
Guy

I do use the acceptable abbreviation where applicable, and if I know that someone was deceased by a certain date then I would put bef. 1878. I do like to explore and add the BMDs to all my branches and twiglets, as well as the census refs if I can find them.

maybe that the reason that [some] people complicate by adding other abbreviations is that they are unaware of the protcol?

[Guest]

I cannot see how in most instances people know if somebody died before a certain date ?? as has been proved time and time again.This one for instance ,somebody has him in their Tree died 1870 in Pancras yet I cannot find it ?
I would rather leave it blank so people dont assume I'm right.

[kylejustin]

what's worse is when you have a date, but no place......

[Darksecretz]

I cannot see how in most instances people know if somebody died before a certain date ?? as has been proved time and time again.This one for instance ,somebody has him in their Tree died 1870 in Pancras yet I cannot find it ?
I would rather leave it blank so people dont assume I'm right.

I guess that if you have them on census and then you cant find them, then, the spouse re-marries that way you could narrow the DOD down a heck of a lot. I have done this in my tree, though I now do have a dilemma, there are a few with the same name that died in the same area/same year. (sods law!!)..

[Guest]

I have so many that remarried whether the first spouse was dead or not, that dont always work with me

[Guy]

Well if a person is named on a gravestone as being buried in the grave it marks it can be safely assumed the person died before the gravestone was erected, even if a date of death is not shown. ;))

One may also assume that a person is born before their baptism therefore a birth date before the baptism date is a safe bet.
If the age of a person is only known from various census then the use of cir. can be helpful as it means approximately.
If a date is given for a divorce then obviously a marriage occurred before that date.

Such pointers are of course only clues as to the time period to base or start a search and should never be taken as accurate dates.
Cheers
Guy

[Guest]

quite right Guy ;)