<<snipped>> ... 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,... <<snipped>> I'll be a bit contrary here - why put the age in at all against a fact? If you've got something about the birth (as surely you will have if you've got an age), then FH will automatically generate an age (or age range) for the fact to show in the individual's facts-tab. I always regard what goes into facts as being my conclusion about the fact and if I know that someone's knocked 3y off their age at marriage, why would I want to put the erroneous age in? I'd rather put a note in that said "X knocked 3y off her age rather than be seen to marry a much younger man." Adrian B

Adrian, That's fine if you have a definite birth date. But if someone was born before statutory registration and you can't find a baptism (or you think they may not have been an infant when baptised) you have to build up a date 'range' for their birth based on ages recorded in other documents. These are not likely to be fully compatible with each other. I find that dispalying the age RECORDED at each event in the property box makes it easy to see where the estimated birth date range came from. And you can see at a glance if a recorded age is incompatible with your estimated birth date range because it will show up with an exclamation mark. Lorna On 21/11/2011 19:52, Adrian Bruce wrote: > I'll be a bit contrary here - why put the age in at all against a fact? If > you've got something about the birth (as surely you will have if you've got > an age), then FH will automatically generate an age (or age range) for the > fact to show in the individual's facts-tab. >