Reply to post: Re: King Edward VII

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Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

Re: King Edward VII

A nice concrete example of the importance of handling of conflicting data is the coronation of KEVII. You will still find a lot of memorabilia with the date shown as 26 June 1902, rather than the correct date 9 August 1902. Users of GED will probably either gloss over the earlier date, or write a mini-essay in a text field explaining the discrepancy (he was rushed to hospital for an emergency op). Users of my program would "cut" a record for each of these two "events" which could be linked to. Anyone looking at his timeline would then see this in the chronology.

The ability to search and sort by date is not so easy with GED because it is a bit lax at enforcement during the data input process.

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