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Glen

Glen Report 10 Apr 2006 22:43

Thanks everyone for replies. Had to go to Heathrow. Roy - my point is that prior to civil registration I have very few birth or death dates; only baptisms & burials. That's why I like PAF 5: it automatically adds an asterisk to denote baptisms & burials so you can see at a glance without going into notes. I tried adding the asterisk myself on FTM but It wouldn't allow it. Think I'll stick to PAF 5. Thanks again to all who responded.

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 10 Apr 2006 12:35

Glen, Elaine, I understand now, but i cannot see the point? Roy

Elaine

Elaine Report 10 Apr 2006 12:19

Roy - yes I know you can enter it in the ADD FACT section - but I presumed Glen wanted to put it on the family page in place of, or in addition to, the date of birth.

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 10 Apr 2006 12:13

Correction to my post above on the FTM 2005, you can select Baptism, just go to add fact and select baptism, plus enter the correct date, and location. Roy

June

June Report 10 Apr 2006 12:08

My FTM lets me put 'bef.' (for before) and then the date of the baptisim. Hope this helps. Regards June

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 10 Apr 2006 12:07

Elaine, in the EDIT ADD fact, under (general) you can put the actual date and a discription i.e baptism. version 2005 Roy

Glen

Glen Report 10 Apr 2006 12:02

Thanks Elaine. So what does every one do - just record the year?

Elaine

Elaine Report 10 Apr 2006 11:57

I don´t think it is . You can of course add the baptism under the EDIT - ADD FACT section but as far as I am aware you cannot enter it under the date of birth box.

Glen

Glen Report 10 Apr 2006 11:50

Is it possible to enter baptism dates instead of birth dates? Thanks