I expect so Victor :-) I mean in the Age box for death and burial facts. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- > historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Victor Markham > Sent: 21 November 2011 17:18 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] Ages at death > > I would like to do that myself. I presume you are referring to Ancestral > Sources > > Victor > > On 21/11/2011 4:23 PM, Anne Cole wrote: > > Is there any reason why I can put ages as days, months or years but not > > weeks? Is there anything I can do to add the weeks option? > > > > Anne > > > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- > USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- > USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I understand Anne. I haven't come across an instance when the days of the death of a child is given. Victor On 21/11/2011 5:28 PM, Anne Cole wrote: > I expect so Victor :-) I mean in the Age box for death and burial facts. > > Anne > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- >> historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Victor Markham >> Sent: 21 November 2011 17:18 >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Ages at death >> >> I would like to do that myself. I presume you are referring to Ancestral >> Sources >> >> Victor >> >> On 21/11/2011 4:23 PM, Anne Cole wrote: >>> Is there any reason why I can put ages as days, months or years but not >>> weeks? Is there anything I can do to add the weeks option? >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society >>> >>> Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 >>> >>> http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html >>> >>> Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index >>> >>> http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ >>> >>> Lincolnshire Family History Society >>> >>> http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- >> USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- >> USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think this is a general issue in FH. Often ages of infants are recorded on censuses and at burial as a number of days, weeks or months, but I can only get FH to accept days or months and not weeks. I've been wondering myself if I'm missing something obvious, but haven't delved any deeper. Perhaps someone more experienced can enlighten me! Bob

This is because the Gedcom specification only recognises age in years, months, days, (or above/below an age in years, months, days), or Stillborn, Infant or Child. If FH permitted age in weeks it would be departing from the Gedcom standard. Where an age is found recorded in weeks the actual age is unlikely to have been an exact multiple of 7 days, so I think the best course is to enter the age as 'younger than' or 'older than' an age in months, and put an explanation in the note field. Lorna On 21/11/2011 18:56, Bob Brock (general mail) wrote: > I think this is a general issue in FH. Often ages of infants are recorded on > censuses and at burial as a number of days, weeks or months, but I can only > get FH to accept days or months and not weeks.