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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   I wish genealogy software and databases would actually acknowledge year   
   quarters (since anyone using the UK GRO records 1837.5 on - including   
   their echoing at FreeBMD, Ancestry, and FindMyPast, probably others too)   
   will have events that are only precise to the nearest quarter. (There   
   are probably other records around the world that are only precise to the   
   nearest quarter as well.)   
      
   I have two reasons for NOT liking the recording of a quarter as for   
   example "the June quarter":   
      
   1. I have encountered all three months being used - in other words, I've   
   encountered the second quarter referred to as the "April quarter", the   
   "May quarter", _and_ the "June quarter". (The GRO themselves are   
   particularly bad, using the first initial of a month to distinguish   
   quarters, thus including "J", which unless known, could be January,   
   June, or July.)   
      
   2. Once an event recorded in that way has been   
   cited/quoted/copied/whatever once or twice, the fact that it was   
   originally known to be a quarter will get lost, and it will be assumed   
   that it is accurate to the month.   
      
   FWIW I record such events, if in plain text, as e. g. 1960Q2; in the   
   software I use (Brother's Keeper), which doesn't "know about" quarters,   
   I enter just the year, with Q2 in the comment field for that event.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   I saw a bloke going round Tesco buying up all the Nachos, Tachos,   
   Fajitas, and paella. I thought Hispanic buying.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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