Problems with date recognition for Norwegian merges
I am trying to merge some Norwegian ancestors and I have been having great difficulties. One of the people has a birth date of 10 April 1862. The other has a birth date of 10.04.1862. These dates are listed as not a match and are "at least 177 days apart." Another person has a birth date of 5 October 1825. The person I want to merge with them has a birth date of 05.10.1825. Again these dates are listed as not matching and are "at least 148 days apart." Both of these examples show ignorance of the way dates are written in Norway (and other places). They ARE matching dates. Surely there should be some way to correct the program so that these dates show up as matches. It is a big pain to write an explanation that they are indeed the same date over and over again.
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You need to check the underlying linked standards. It is only the standards that are compared, not the displayed values on the profile.
Entering dates has been improved and it is now very difficult to incorrectly standardize a date but in older versions of the date entry routine it was, unfortunately, easier to do.
Currently when one enters a numerical date, which is not advised by the way because of the ambiguity, you get this:
and are required to specify which date you mean. There is no way for the program to know what you are talking about otherwise.
If you insist on keeping the ambiguous number only version, you can. Just click on the top line that has that form. But be very careful if you do! The program will take the first listed standard of 4. okt 1862. It has to pick one of them to know what the date is:
If that linked standard is wrong, you need to click on the standard and repair it:
But you can see that you cannot simply change the standard to 10. april. All you can do is click in the text entry date and then choose the April date:
The program is designed here to try to prevent data entry errors on dates despite all the different ways different countries record dates.
So to get back to your concern, check that 10.04.1862. I'm pretty sure you will find it is standardized incorrectly. Edit it to FamilySearch's recommended 10 April 1862 (note this is still the European standard of Day-Month-Year) and the merge inconsistency will vanish.
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