Family search historical date different than principle date

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Donald Allen Soper said: While attaching a historical record to family tree, I find that the historical record has the birth date and place name, and the principles record only has the date. I attach the record and then return to my principle person’s vitals and manually complete birth information by adding the date.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some programming method that would do this for me?

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Gordon Collett said: We've been told that may be possible in the future. The reason we cannot now, is because you cannot see all the information that birth year is based on.

The principle date is everyone's best conclusion based all on the evidence available to them. For all you know, unless you have checked. there may be multiple sources that explain and document why just the year is there and that the date on the one single uncorroborated record in front of you is wrong.

It would be inappropriate to wipe out a well reasoned conclusion with one incorrect source in a single blow.

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Tom Huber said: You recorded this same request a day ago and the responses haven't changed. See https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... for your posting and responses.