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I wish genealogy software and databases would actually acknowledge year quarters (since anyone using the UK GRO records 1837.5 on - including
their echoing at FreeBMD, Ancestry, and FindMyPast, probably others too)
will have events that are only precise to the nearest quarter. (There
are probably other records around the world that are only precise to the nearest quarter as well.)

I have two reasons for NOT liking the recording of a quarter as for
example "the June quarter":

1. I have encountered all three months being used - in other words, I've encountered the second quarter referred to as the "April quarter", the
"May quarter", _and_ the "June quarter". (The GRO themselves are
particularly bad, using the first initial of a month to distinguish
quarters, thus including "J", which unless known, could be January,
June, or July.)

2. Once an event recorded in that way has been
cited/quoted/copied/whatever once or twice, the fact that it was
originally known to be a quarter will get lost, and it will be assumed
that it is accurate to the month.

FWIW I record such events, if in plain text, as e. g. 1960Q2; in the
software I use (Brother's Keeper), which doesn't "know about" quarters,
I enter just the year, with Q2 in the comment field for that event.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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