When I assign “active” dates for a person, I’m used to not knowing their birth and death dates. But today I ran into a source that told me someone became active in 1649 and died in 1675. Of course that also has to be the end of his “activity.”
So do I set the 046 up as ǂs 1649 ǂt 1675 or as:
ǂg 1675 ǂs 1649 ǂt 1675
since I know his death date but not his birth date?
Ted P. Gemberling
Historical Collections Cataloger
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