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JennGM
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Posted: June 17 2010 at 8:10pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
When you're fitting books and persons and events in timeline or chronological order, my big question comes when there is a person. Do you fit that person at his Date of Birth?

And what about crossovers, when a person or event spans two centuries? Where do you put them generally?

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Posted: June 17 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
That is something I find myself questioning on many occasions. I am not consistent - sometimes I do go by birthdate but sometimes by the event they are most associated with. And often times I include separate pages or points on a timeline for the different dates.

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MaryM wrote:
That is something I find myself questioning on many occasions. I am not consistent - sometimes I do go by birthdate but sometimes by the event they are most associated with. And often times I include separate pages or points on a timeline for the different dates.

Ditto. Also not consistent. Sometimes, we'll put the person's name at his DOB, but add an illustration for something significant about his life that came later.

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Posted: June 17 2010 at 8:44pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
I think I put the person at the significant events.. but give his DOB-DOD at that point too.

If I was to go down a timeline narrating it.. it would seem silly to me to say..

And then George Washington was born.. and go onto events that have nothing to do with him for 20 or 30 years.

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We do it by date of significant contribution, but we always put birth/death dates underneath the picture as well.

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