XPost: alt.genealogy   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/2/11 21:38:5, Charles Ellson wrote:   
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   > It varies with what part of the system you are looking at. The search   
   > page presents month-month-month as a search term but the result can   
   > show a letter or a quarter number. In any case, it indicates when the   
   > event was registered not when it occurred so anything registered in   
   > the first quarter could have occurred in the preceding year. In   
   > practice that only translates to the year for an event in the latter   
   > three quarters or "about" the year for the first quarter if the   
   > event's date is not already known.   
      
   I know all that. (You can't even be sure it happened only in the quarter   
   or the previous one; it could be even earlier, but the family pretended   
   it was then to avoid late registration charges, or for many other reasons.)   
      
   But at least we know when it was _registered_. But unfortunately, some   
   softwares - and websites - don't have "quarter" as a unit they   
   recognise, and some people also choose to record a quarter by one of the   
   three months it contains (and I have found all three months used.) Once   
   this has passed through a process or several, the fact that it _isn't_   
   known to the month (as well as, often, the fact that it's the date of   
   registration, not of the event) rapidly gets lost, giving a false sense   
   of precision.   
      
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