* Setting Birth or Baptism as primary

[tatewise]

Appropriate adjustment of the Diagram Text Scheme should allow a Baptism with a full Date to take precedence over a Birth with only a year Date, or to show both the Birth and the Baptism.

[trevorrix]

I record and display both birth and baptism with equal priority. They are both primary source records.

[fhtess65]

I can understand. Doesn't work in all instances, however, as in my family, there are several ancestors/relations baptized well after they were born - as in teens/early 20s. Fortunately for me, at least for my direct line ancestors, I also have a birth cert to use.

Ah, the challenges of genealogy work...it would be boring if it were always easy

Teresa

Absolutely no offence taken, but I quite liked the use of a definite baptism date in reports where I was never going to be able to find an exact birth date. I found this most useful in charts such as pedigree and drop down charts.

For most of the estimated dates, the information would have originally come from ages at censuses or other life events, but for those where the birth was estimated from the baptism date, I didn't really like the fact that the inferred date was coming from the same evidence and citation as the baptism date, and therefore adding little to the project as all baptisms would logically have to follow births!

From my recollection TMG also used the preferred dates for the age ranges immediately below the individuals names in the family record view.

Thanks for all the helpful comments and advice

Andrew