Family Historian User Group

This is a bit of a nit-picking question, and I'm pretty sure there's no way to make FH3 do exactly what I want it to in this case, but I would be interested to hear what other people do.

When recording a date (B/M/D), where I have a GRO Index quarter date but not an actual day, I usally enter this as something like 'Q3 1899'. I then use the source 'GRO Births' (or whatever) and cite the reference (say 'Sep 1899 / Cardiff / 11a / 111') in the 'Where In Source' field.

All this is hunky dory for me - FH3 understands the date and displays it as I want it in diagrams. However, in the background (and in the GEDCOM file), it has actually stored 'BET JUL 1899 AND SEP 1899', and this is proving to be a problem when uploading the GEDCOM to certain sites (Genes Reunited seems to have a problem with births in this format, though not marriages.) I want it to upload 'Q1 1899'.

Now I can do this by setting it as a Date Phrase, but that results in the dates having horrible quote marks on them in diagrams, etc.. I could just enter the year as I have the quarter in the citation, I know. But I like having the quarter show on the diagram.

I was just wondering how other people deal with quarter dates?

Adrian

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The Qtr date format is not actually a standard date GEDCOM , so FH does converts it to the standard format when it saves the GEDCOM.

I seem to remember this has been discussed before and it was suggested just to use a text editor to remove all BTW dates and just leave the year. For GR this should be enough as they only use years anyway.

I knew I had done this before

http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=1734

Slightly off topic, is there any way of saving regular expressions in PSPad for future use?

See my post of almost 12 monts ago

http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... y&num=1809

But since no one commented on it or said they may like to try it have done nothing with it, but it dooes work and reduses file size certainly on my Gedcom by 3/4 qrts i.e a 1MB GedCom instead of 4MB, Over 6000 people in my tree and does it in about 2 secs and that is on an old Win98 Machine 700GHz processor and 256MB of RAM.