It will be helpful to use AD for dates after the birth of Jesus.
Greetings,
In looking in FamilySearch at the record for Saint Joseph ben Matthat of Arimathea (LVSL-8YF) it gives his birth date as 28BC. For his death date it gives 82(large dot). Could you please put AD in place of the large dot? This will make it easier for people to understand the time period.
Thank you very much for all your help,
David Putnam Jr.
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I don't see any large dot after his death date:
Can you post an image of what you are seeing?
By convention, any year with no modifiers is AD and I'm pretty sure everyone understands that.
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I wonder if the "large dot" reference is based on the Find results view:
That dot is just a divider/spacer between the dates and the PID.
And the same in the header - the dot just a divider between the dates and the PID.
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As Gordon says, it is a universal standard that if it doesn't say otherwise, then a year is AD (or CE). And besides, there is no need for any labeling of years in the ancestry of currently-living people, as none of us can trace that far back -- the records simply do not exist. (Many of them were never made in the first place.)
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Are we sure that his dates are correct? He lived to age 110, 2,000 years ago?
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You can't be sure of anything unless there are actual records. Wikipedia's article about him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea is a good start for learning about all the legends about him. You can be sure there is no actual documentation of either his birth or his death dates, just a lot of medieval manuscripts of very questionable reliability.
The Catholic Encyclopedia at: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08520a.htm puts it rather bluntly:
All that is known for certain concerning him is derived from the canonical Gospels. He was born at Arimathea — hence his surname — "a city of Judea" (Luke 23:51), .... The additional details which are found concerning him in the apocryphal "Acta Pilati", are unworthy of credence. Likewise fabulous is the legend which tells of his coming to Gaul A.D. 63, and thence to Great Britain, where he is supposed to have founded the earliest Christian oratory at Glastonbury. Finally, the story of the translation of the body of Joseph of Arimathea from Jerusalem to Moyenmonstre (Diocese of Toul) originated late and is unreliable.
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