Guessing a Date: Difference between revisions

<span>In order to document an event a researcher must sometimes guess the date when the event happened. Look at the dates already shown on a family group record to identify the most likely dates of additional events.</span>

<span>When you can find no other clues, use the following guidelines to help estimate dates. These guidelines are only approximate and researchers must allow leeway in individual cases.</span>

* <span>Look up each family member in all the censuses and directories during their lifetimes to learn their ages, or help narrow the number of years when certain events may have happened. [[Adding a Custom Event to a PAF Family Group Record|Add a custom event to the family group record]] for each census or directory you find; this helps you estimate dates for other events.</span><span></span>

* <span>Generally, brothers and sisters who die of old age are most likely to die at '''''roughly''''' the same age.</span>

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