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Birth date and death date

Nicole Kimberly Allen

February 04, 2015 22:54

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I'm trying to enter them on my deceased famliy members as MM DD YYYY and it will not show up. Even when I go to edit again, it shows that I haven't entered anything.

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  Jeff, Geni Curator February 09, 2015 19:09

  Since this is a question from last week and I know they just made some updates to the date field, could you please try again.  I think they may have fixed the error.  If not, double check your date format settings are formatted similar. https://www.geni.com/account_settings/localization  It's possible it is not recognizing what you're entering due to the format.  It should actually list the date as it's entered on the right of the field.  Let me know if you're still having issues and what you're trying to enter - I'll try to reproduce it and relay it to the dev team.

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  Nicole Kimberly Allen February 09, 2015 21:42

  Still does not appear. Even when I set my date to MM DD YYYY it will not work.

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  Jeff, Geni Curator February 09, 2015 21:48

  I can't reproduce your problem.  These are not claimed profiles are they?  Just making sure I'm understanding correctly.  You get the birth and death date fields, but when you type in, for example, 09/21/1840, it doesn't see that as a valid date or it does see it as valid, but when you save it, it doesn't take?

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  Nicole Kimberly Allen February 09, 2015 22:19

  I figured this issue out. It wouldn't update on my computer. It did let me update and save on my mobile phone. Thank you!

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  Jeff, Geni Curator February 09, 2015 22:21

  Glad you got it working.  Perhaps - javascript blocking (NoScript/SafeScript)?  Very odd

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  Marie Zylstra nee Bishop January 08, 2016 11:13

  The system would not accept the date in the MM DD YYYY Format (I'm working on an IPad). Gave up after the third and cancelled the entire entry. Very frustrated
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  Bjørn P. Brox January 08, 2016 11:21

  Marie - Are you sure that you have set your account setting (which you find by clicking your own name in the upper right corner) to use the MM DD YYYY Format?
  You should also ensure that no extra white-space is included if you pasted the date from another source (the system is not smart enough to strip white-space before trying to parse the date)
  
  In any case, because of the confusing US method and many standards on writing dates I recommend to use an undocumented method to ensure that month is not parsed as day you should spell the month name, either in short or full form, using your selected language, for example "11 september 1922" or "11 sep 1922"