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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sort dates, reply to Bob (medium)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:45:28 -0000
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Walt Flory wrote:

> I have struggled with whether (when looking at census data) to say
something
> happened after the year of the census, or to say it happened after the
year
> before the census.

Walt,

Why not say it happened after the actual date of the census? I have many
people in my dataset with death dates of "after 3 April 1881", the date of
the British 1881 Census.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK



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