A person, born in 1936, has a relationship with an other person (birthdate unknown). From memory I only know vague dates. So in the Person category I made an event ‘Relationship’ with the following date entry ‘estimated between 1968 and 1978’. Which is accepted as being valid. When I close the date …

[image] ursus: ‘date about year range I have filed a bug report. hope I have done it correctly 13387 : ‘Estimated’ in Age Calculator is contaminated by ‘about’ approximation limits

It is a minor enhancement on how estimated should be calculated when applied to ranges/spans. Which means filing an enhancement request… and then waiting for a patch to be published in a “minor” release. (Or manually patching the calculator in the meantime.) We need a discussion of what the “estima…

I wouldn’t be able to patch the calculator unless specifically explained howto. as to what the ‘estimated’ modifier should mean for a ‘between’ range… I could live with either its own preference OR switching automatically to 0. To my feel a ‘between’ does exclude dates outside both established date…

Because of the way Gramps handles “about”, and you are using a range which in itself is an “about”, you should set the about preferences to 5 and then use “about 1972” or “between 1968 and 1978”, but not both.

He is using an “estimated”, not an “about”

Yes. So we need to consider if we want to treat “estimated 1972” like “about 1972” for example.

[image] ursus: estimated between 1968 and 1978 I have never understood the need for the qualifiers “estimated” and “calculated”. Doesn’t the use of “between 1968 and 1978” already imply that absent better information, the event happened at some point between the two dates. That the span of t…

The Gedcom specification describes About, Calculated and Estimated as follows: Production Meaning ABT x Exact date unknown, but near x. CAL x x is calculated from other data. EST x Exact date unknown, but near x; and x is calculated from other data.

[image] DaveSch: For me, the two qualifiers, “estimated” and “calculated”, are redundant. I try to always use ‘estimated’ when entering a birth date from an age recorded on a census or marriage license. It was acceptable expected for a women to claim a younger age and males to claim older. (U…

[image] Davesellers: you should set the about preferences to 5 I don’t agree. ‘About’ tends to be a broader limit than estimated. The ±50 year default is probably too high for my ‘about’ use. I like about ±25 years. I think of ‘Estimated’ in ±1 to ±5 years. ‘Before’ and ‘After’ are within an…

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