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From: "Peter & Doreen Neilley" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Same age not same generation was
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:52:34 -0700
References: <000a01c50971$b41a3ce0$6501a8c0@LindaHome> <001601c50c0c$3b059690$40b6b8a1@seanixxolmzp0y> <6.0.0.22.2.20050207121040.03fc9a50@mail.bellsouth.net>


That's about what I did, but it took a lot of experimentation for me to
figure out the sort dates. I'd get someon set to what I thought worked and
then discover that I had them being born beofre their grand-dad. Of course,
maybe they were, back then! <g> My point, I guess, is that I managed to deal
with it, but I think there are enough of us out there using TMG for pre-A.D.
dates that it would be a really nice enhancement in some future version, if
B.C. dates could be dealth with logically. Not being a programmer, I don't
know how this would work - maybe radio buttons, one for A.D. as the default
and one for B.C. that you had to change it to, and then reports would
include the B.C. autmatically, and A.D. if you requested it?

After all, we wouldn't want Bob Velke et al to get bored, or think that we
couldn't think of anything else for the program to do, would we?!! <g, r, d>

Sincerely, Doreen Neilley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Same age not same generation was


> Peter & Doreen Neilley wrote:
> >Yep, try doing the Biblical begatters!
>
> I have Adam shown with an arbitrary date of 1 Jan 4000 BC in the Date
field
> (an Irregular Date). But the Sort Date for that "Birth" Tag is 1 Jan
> 0100. For Eve, I entered a Birth Date of 1 Feb 4000 BC (also an abitrary
> Irregular Date) with a Sort Date of 2 Jan 0101. I arbitrarily entered
> Birth Sort Dates of 3 Feb 0101 for Cain's arbitrary Birth Date (Irregular)
> of 1 Jan 3999 BC. I continue this kind of dating for all the BC Dates
> putting the actual (possibly arbitrary) date in the Date field and then a
> Sort Date between 1 Jan 0101 and 31 Dec 0399. The regular Date prints
> normally and the Sort Date does not.
>
> It is a little work to prorate the Dates and Sort Dates. But it serves to
> keep everyone in the proper sequence. Then I have an introductory
> paragraph that explains the printed dates are really arbitrary as very
> general approximations. I also mention that while _some_ scholars
indicate
> that these kind of dates may be near to the actual dates, others think the
> years are much earlier and some later. The primary function of the dates
> are to approimate the proper order of persons' lives.
>
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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