Your systm requires mm-dd-yyyy birth &death.Won't accept yr only.I had to invent mmdd.Hate to lie.

Question

System won't accept birth or death year without mmdd. What if I don't know mmdd only know yyyy. I don't want to add bogus (lie) year. Help Tks

Answer 1

Although the fields indicate mm-dd-yyyy,  if you only have the year - you can still enter just that in four digit format. 

See:   http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Date_Fields

Input Formats

For inputting dates, any of the following are acceptable:

• Month DD, YYYY (e.g. December 12, 2012)
• Mon DD YYYY (e.g. Dec 12 2012)
• Mon. DD, YYYY (e.g. Dec. 12, 2012)
• DD Month YYYY (e.g. 12 December 2012)
• DD Mon YYYY (e.g. 12 Dec 2012)
• YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2012-12-12)
• MM-DD-YYYY (e.g. 12-12-2012)
• Month YYYY (e.g. December 2012)
• YYYY (e.g. 2012)

Answer 2

I have entered years only in profiles I'm involved with. In what context are you encourtering this?