My wife received shares of several companies when she was very little. We got around to tracking them in Quicken a few years ago. We were not able to go back and put the history in the registry so I just entered them in with an action of 'added'.
I am trying to understand the gain of these shares since we have started tracking them but the % gain that Quicken shows is like %1000 percent and more. I am assume this is the case because it doesn't show that I paid anything for these.
Is there any way for me to track these a little more accurately without having to investigate the history (this was 30 to 40 years ago)? Is there any way to understand the gain better or record the first Quicken transaction better?