Is it me or is everyone else having complications with Ancestry? My birthday is January and yet the records are coming up with Febuary, Mum's is August but it's saying September and my Nanna's is May 19th but it's coming up with September.. Anyone know why that would be?
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From 1984 onwards the birth registrations are month/year
Before that they were in quarters.
So your mother's birth - she was born in August and therefore recorded in the 3rd quarter of the year, namely July/Aug/Sept. In some records this is just recorded as Sept quarter.
Your grandmother - born 19th May - again probably recorded in the 3rd quarter, July/Aug/SeptElaine
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Not being a user of any specialist commercial software for genealogy, does it not allow you to record Quarter properly? I keep it as a separate field, as well as having a field which records the likely accuracy of the birth year, depending on its source. I keep baptisms separate, too: some data I have been given uses the baptism date where the birth date is not known; a baptism on the day of birth has never been usual unless the baby is likely to die imminently. Similarly for deaths and burials, although it is reasonable to assume a burial before the days of refrigerated morgues to have taken place within a few days of death!
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> Not being a user of any specialist commercial software for genealogy, does it not allow you to record Quarter properly?
Er ... what?Last edited by SmallTownGirl; 08-09-12, 15:20.Always looking for Goodwins in Berkshire.
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By properly, I mean separately, so that you can see that it could be any month of the three (and know about the possible 6 week delay). If you can't enter the quarter as such, you have to compromise. Maybe you don't enter it at all, or you enter it as the first, the last, or the middle month of the three, all of which could mislead - or you have to remember to add a narrative note.
A spreadsheet can be very flexible....
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