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From: Mary Inglis <>
Subject: Re: WRITING DATES
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:27:22 -0700


Pat: I have the same database (but I haven't used it yet for genealogy) and
I did the same thing you did - I have a separate column for year. But I
started that way, so didn't have the disaster you did. Whew, what a job!
Mary Inglis

PATRICIA PATTERSON wrote:
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>.
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> I started using MS ACCESS, a commercial data base, for my genealogy and
> it worked just fine until I found I had over 200 people on my dbase. I
> was using the dd/mmm/yyyy format and Access tossed out the "year" part
> of the dates! I was furious, and was quite prepared to call Billy
> Gates on the phone to say "PHTEWY" in his ear! I solved the problem by
> setting up TWO fields, one for the date and one for the year....but I
> had to look up and type in all 200 dates again! Since those days, MS
> ACCESS has been upgraded 6 times and it's a terrific program that no
> longer throws out what it doesn't like!
>
> /patricia
> --
> Patricia Patterson - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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