Timeframe on Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Kentucky

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The category page for this cemetery shows a timeframe of (1854-).  The website for the cemetery indicates it was formally established in 1854; however, the first burial occurred in 1804.  Shouldn't the category page timeframe be first burial not a formal establishment?
in Policy and Style by Vance Johnson G2G6 Mach 1 (10.5k points)

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You are correct.  I went into the category programming and made the changes so that this does not create an error for any profiles with an early death date. So to answer your original question, we are indeed supposed to use the date of the earliest burial and not the established date.  But we often don’t know the earliest burial date when we create the category.  The correction is simple though.  Just hit the edit button for the category and change the date and add a note below the programming to show other why it is different from the established date.
by Gurney Thompson G2G6 Pilot (469k points)

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