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• Family Tree Detective allows you to enter approximations. You can use words like Before, After, and About in conjunction with dates. For example, you can enter a date as Before 100 in any date field in Family Tree Detective.
  
  Figure 1: An approximate date

• You can enter the actual date in the associated comment/location field, as in the example below.
  
  Figure 2: A date in the comment/location field
  Even if you decide to use the second option, we recommend entering an approximation in the date field so that Family Tree Detective knows the general time frame of the associated event. Leaving out the date entirely can impact some of Family Tree Detective's functionality. For example, when generating a Search Report, Family Tree Detective uses birth and death dates to rate the matches on a five-star scale.