Hello everyone, I have an anomaly and would welcome any opinions or advice. My paternal grandfather died in August 1942. His death certificate states that he died on 27th August

Lesley is nearly correct, but one parent will still be linked to the grandparents and their spouse. In the Focus Window, right-click child and Unlink Record. Link the child to the ‘grandparents’

Personally, I would unlink the children from 'parents' and link them to correct couple. Then the 'parents' should have no links up or down, so safe to delete, or simply leave in the database in case

I have created a child, parents and grandparents in my project. I now realise that the grandparents are the childs parents and the 'parents' need to be deleted. How do I do this? Is it as simple as

Great suggestions . My goal is to write a story that will read very much like an historical novel. In a research report I would have the flexibility to include proof statements and include as much of

Jan, thanks for those very useful links. They are also very timely for me as I'm about to start writing a short research report! Kai On 01/02/2022 03:02, Jan Murphy wrote:

Edward -- In some of these cases, you seem to be askling about writing a citation when what you really need is a proof summary or proof statement. These links may be or interest: BCG website:

I'm not sure 100 a good number to use. People are living a lot longer. I have at least 10 people in my tree who lived to be over 100. My wife's grandmother died about 10 years ago

Hi Not sure if this helps but I input "Unknown" in the death date when I can't find one; obviously it is only input when I am sure ie over 100 years. It is shown as a line in the Individual Records

Thanks every one for your views, I only put a range date if I know they have died, say for example between census', I will then try to find the quarter in the bmd records but if I can't do that, I

In those cases I also create a death event, I just leave the date blank or as Adrian suggested I might put a before date. I just don't try to estimate the year. Bill

Thanks Mike and Adrian, I am doing a story on a single family in my tree. They are worthy of special consideration and I have a good deal of documentation on them. Since one child will go on and

IMO as a general rule, it is better to have a Death Event than not for people who you know must have died. That is because some products will consider the person as still living if there is no Death

If you know that they died before a certain date (e.g. wife shown as widow on a census), is there any merit in using the Before option on the range tab of the date entry pop-up to reduce the number of

Re Bill's experience with ashes being interred years after burial. That's a good argument against a general use of deaths estimated from "burial" date. I'd only say that in the context of the UK,

I do not make estimates for peoples deaths because in some cases they can be completely wrong. I have numerous relatives who were not buried until many years (as many as 21

The only time that I concoct a death date is when I have indirect evidence for it, such as a burial, when I'll estimate a death date based on the burial date minus - waves hand and thinks of a number.

Yes, to be honest, that is my take on it too, I have no plans to insert a fake event, but I will start to find as many as I can, I am retired now so have more time to research them properly. I just

In my opinion it's not a good idea to fake death dates. I leave mine blank. In most cases I do have burial dates. Unfortunately some websites do not recognise burial dates, such as FTDNA trees, which

Good Evening, I have a few hundred individuals in my file with no death recorded, how do other people handle this? If you do not have a date of death, do you leave it blank or input an estimated death