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Hi all,

In Civi 4.2.6, the membership Start Date is defined as, "Beginning of current uninterrupted membership period" [emphasis mine].

That means that if you have a one-year rolling membership from 1/1/2011-12/31/2011, and you renew it on 3/2/12, your Start Date will be 3/2/12.  However, if you renew on 12/15/11, your End Date will be properly updated, but your Start Date will remain at 1/1/2011.

This makes finding renewals made before a membership ends VERY difficult maybe impossible for free memberships.  They also do not show up as renewals on the membership dashboard. 

There's a second bug that compounds this issue that I haven't fully tracked down.  Sometimes, membership renewals show up as "Membership Signup" activities in Activities - combined with the bug above, this makes some renewals impossible to track down.  I believe this second bug is caused when a user renews a membership without being logged in.

So, some questions:
* Is there any reliable way to find renewals made before the expiration of a membership?
* Is the civicrm_membership schema going to change in any way due to CiviAccounts?  I feel like the concepts embodied in CiviAccounts (e.g. never modify an existing transaction record, always update it with a second record) would solve this issue.