Re: [Gramps-users] estimating dates

[Duncan L. <du...@li...>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 07:23 -0400, Jim Winfrey wrote: 
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> Early on I used the estimated dates feature in FTM.  I have spent
> years fixing the errors it caused.  There is just so much error in old
> records that we have no idea when people were born, whether there may
> have been a later wife/mother we don't have a record for, even whether
> the child shown on the census belonged to the subject family.  I would
> want to be able to control how, and when, this feature was used.  I
> find it just as easy to make this determination manually.
> 
> Jim
Certainly it should be tagged in a specific way, so it's clearly
auto-generated. But if it was smart and optional I could imagine using
it. Imagine if you could teach it average lifespans in a certain decade,
it checked all events to make sure they're alive and old enough for
them. I've marked unknown births as "estimated before nnnn" with a
comment that it assumes they were at least 15 when they had their first
child. Likewise marriage dates can help suggest other dates.

Is it worth making as a suggestion for gramps?

Duncan