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    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?
    Lennon. Phillips. Thomas. Peacock. Tubridy. Burton.

    I am the girl from that town & I'm darn proud of it.

  • #2
    It's to do with the quarter* in which the births were registered. There's a maximum period of 42 days between the birth and the registration.

    STG

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    Q1 = Jan - Mar
    Q2 = Apr - Jun
    Q3 = Jul - Sep
    Q4 = Oct - Dec
    Always looking for Goodwins in Berkshire.

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    • #3
      You are given 6 weeks in which to register a birth, therefore your birth in January may not have been registered until February.
      Elaine







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      • #4
        cheers :D i can understand the january since it's the 30th but the othere's were a little odd..
        Lennon. Phillips. Thomas. Peacock. Tubridy. Burton.

        I am the girl from that town & I'm darn proud of it.

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        • #5
          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/Sept
          Elaine







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          • #6
            Thanks for clearing that up for me Elaine, I thought we'd been getting birthdays wrong, my Mum did always say that she wasn't there for mine :p
            Lennon. Phillips. Thomas. Peacock. Tubridy. Burton.

            I am the girl from that town & I'm darn proud of it.

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            • #7
              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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              • #8
                > 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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                • #9
                  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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                  • #10
                    I think the original question concerned the quarters in which the registrations were made, rather than how to record them in a genealogy software program.
                    Elaine







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                    • #11
                      I record mine as "about Sep 18XX" for the 3rd. quarter and then put "q3 18xx, vol, page" in the detail.
                      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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