Our earlier post about marriage dates before approximate birth dates in the trees at Ancestry.com indicated that there was no error message that appeared. A reader wondered what exactly happens if the year of birth is exact. There is an error message that comes up if a marriage year is chosen before a precise year […]

Warning flags are one way Ancestry.com tries to help users reduce the number of errors their files. Apparently the parameters are not set too closely when the date of birth is approximate. I was able to enter a 1780 marriage for an individual born about 1845 without any warning flags or error prompts appearing. When […]