When I enter a census, marriage, etc, AS calculates the year of birth, marriage, etc. This is great but can it be just left as the year rather than as now year (Cal)?
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Re: Calculated Dates
No (normal) calculation can ever give an exact year of birth etc - You might be X years old at one census but whether you were born in census-year minus X or in the previous year to that, depends on whether you've already had your birthday in the census year or not. That's why I suspect that any rough calculation will (and should) always qualify the result with something such as CAL or ABT or ...
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I'm aware of that but I'd like AS to just put the year not add (Cal) to it. I can research further from that year.
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Re: Calculated Dates
The dialogue that offers to create birth facts for baptisms, marriages, etc. does allow you to change the Estimated to be blank, but unfortunately that isn't possible with census records.
I would say that adding calculated really is the correct thing to do here as the birth date is being calculated based on a date and an age. Although I do include lots of options, I can't create options for every single possible thing that users might want to do. The fact that this is the first time that I remember this being requested in the last 15 years suggests it isn't a feature that users are demanding.
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I would say that adding calculated really is the correct thing to do here as the birth date is being calculated based on a date and an age. Although I do include lots of options, I can't create options for every single possible thing that users might want to do. The fact that this is the first time that I remember this being requested in the last 15 years suggests it isn't a feature that users are demanding.
Best wishes
Nick