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Question mark in year

Tom Eccles
Tom Eccles ✭
November 8, 2021 in Indexing

Would it be reasonable to consider allowing indexing software to accept a question mark for the last digit of a year? To me it seems like 169? might be more helpful than <BLANK> for someone searching indexed records for an ancestor.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 8, 2021

    Have you tried it?

    I believe I was able successfully to do that recently on Year Field in an entry. Whether you can or cannot might be project-specific. I used to think it was never valid. Maybe times have changed.

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  • LarryClark43
    LarryClark43 ✭✭✭✭
    November 8, 2021

    I used the ? yesterday on a year entry and the batch submitted. I don't actually remember which project I was working on.

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