Answers.Body: <p>For CiviCRM 4.6+ go to <strong>Administer menu > Customize Data and Screens > Date Preferences</strong>.  From there, change the Start Offset of SearchDate.</p>
  
  <p>For CiviCRM versions before 4.6, this is part of the Advanced Date settings linked from <strong>Administer > Localization > Date Format</strong>.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Works also for Relationship dates!
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Answers.Body: <p>Further to Jon's helpful answer, for CiviCRM 4.7.12 (and possibly earlier) the date preference setting that needs to be changed is 'activityDate', as the description makes clear.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm cleaning up membership data that was imported and need to make changes in the "member since" field. Some people have been members since the 80's. When I try to add pre-1995 dates, I get the following error:</p>
  
  <p>Please enter a date between 01/01/1995 and 12/31/2025</p>
  
  <p>How can I increase the date range so that I can add correct historical membership data?
  Thanks, 
  Kate</p>
  
Tags: <civimember><search><date-preferences>
Title: Member since date before 1995
ThreadText: # Member since date before 1995
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-27)
  
  I'm cleaning up membership data that was imported and need to make changes in the "member since" field. Some people have been members since the 80's. When I try to add pre-1995 dates, I get the following error:
  
  Please enter a date between 01/01/1995 and 12/31/2025
  
  How can I increase the date range so that I can add correct historical membership data?
  Thanks,
  Kate
  
  **Tags:** civimember, search, date-preferences
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-27. Score: 15
  
  For CiviCRM 4.6+ go to **Administer menu > Customize Data and Screens > Date Preferences**. From there, change the Start Offset of SearchDate.
  
  For CiviCRM versions before 4.6, this is part of the Advanced Date settings linked from **Administer > Localization > Date Format**.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Works also for Relationship dates!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2016-10-07. Score: 2
  
  Further to Jon's helpful answer, for CiviCRM 4.7.12 (and possibly earlier) the date preference setting that needs to be changed is 'activityDate', as the description makes clear.
  
  
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