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Date Formats used by GEDCOM and others supported by FTA

GenoPro does not allow circa or c in front of a date. If entered, it just removes it.
Instead, it allows the Tilde character (~). Similarly, one can use < and > to mean before and after.
I think it changes such instances to the Gedcom standard (ABT/BEF/AFT) when producing the external file.
 
If only all Family Tree Programs restricted people to only entered valid dates there would be a lot less errors in our trees.
 
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