How to reconcile a man's death date "after" a certain year with the baptism of youngest child?

Question

I have a man whose youngest child was baptized on 23 October 1687, and there is no more recent record of him. So, I listed "before" the baptism date for the child's birth and "after" 23 January 1687 for the father's death. WikiTree will not accept the date and keeps telling me the father could not have died more than 9 months before the child's birth. Furthermore, WikiTree will not accept any changes anywhere else on the profile.

Well, not only that, but WikiTree will not post this question if I put a profile URL or ID in the space provided. The IDs are Lynn-1043 for the father and Linn-706 for the daughter.

Answer 1

Would moving the father's death date forward a day clear the obstruction. That would still be a reasonable estimate, and should be less than 9 months. In reality, how many pregnancies are nine months to the day from conception to birth,

Comments

Thanks Greg. I get your last point though - unfortunately - no date of birth was given and lots of children were baptized at 2, 3, or more years old. I also know multiple cases where the father did die before the actual day of birth.

I have, for now at least, changed the father's date of death to "after" the date of the child's baptism, although that could easily be wrong by a year or more. For the above reasons, I think WikiTree should change the way it recognizes legitimate dates of death to accept estimated deaths occurring in the same year.

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I have had a couple of these, you can ignore and save anyway, putting a note in the bio to explain (if you think it is necessary to justify yourself) and just to explain your reasoning to anyone else who might come along and try to edit. The red banner is a slight pain in those circumstances as it keeps popping up every time you edit, but you are not obliged to change fact to satisfy the red banner, it is just there to help stop us making major errors and century typos, not tell us what circumstances are acceptable. Some of my family were baptised in their teens, so it would have been necessary for me to do the above if the father was already dead, in the interests of accuracy. Accuracy should always come before satisfying the system, in my opinion.