Thanks for the explanation Lorna. That's what I have been doing - converting 14 weeks to 3 months but I only just found the box that gives the options of stillborn/days/months/years etc. whilst looking for weeks! I will have to go back sometime and do some alterations. 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 Lorna Craig > Sent: 21 November 2011 19:41 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] Ages at death > > 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. > > ------------------------------- > 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