Glen, I understood what was happening. I was really querying the use of 'age' for events after death. As others have indicated, it really is 'years from birth'.
My gut reaction is that 'age' should not be provided for post-death entries. Although in that case what would you do if you have a date of an event after death, but no date of death - e.g. a wedding certificate showing a father as dead. Possibly set a date of death as Bef ...? Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Ballard Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a bug?? William, At the right side of the Individual view in Legacy (to the right of each default event), you have the age that happened at that event. The Death age & Burial age can be different. If the birth event ONLY has a year, the Death date is at the end of December and the Burial date is in Jan of the next year, the AGE at death will be one age and the AGE at burial will be 1 year later. THERE IS NO BIRTH DATE only a YEAR. Try this and see for yourself. Legacy calculates the age of a person at ANY event with a date. For example: Birth date of 01 Jan 1980 Christened date of 01 Jan 1983 the age at christening would be 3 Why don't you look back at a relative that has all 4 default events filled in and see what it shows for age at the events to the right. You just might even notice that the age showing to the right of the Birth event shows how old they would be now. For example, if you have someone born in the year 1811, they would be 194 or 195 depending on when in the year they were born. This is simple date calculations. You can even try these calculations in Excel or another spreadsheet program. Glen Ballard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:08 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] a bug?? I'm confused! My understanding of 'age' at any point in time is the number of years (months, days, ..) between the date & time of birth and the earlier of 1) the date of the event and 2) the date of death. In other words since the date of burial falls after the date of death then the calculation of 'age' would not be based on that date, but on the date of death (unless the date of death was not known). Using that logic, the spanning of years should not impact the 'age'. Have I misunderstood the meaning of 'age'? Bill Anderson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Ballard Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a bug?? That is why. You are spanning 2 years for Death & Burial. The program doesn't know when exactly the birth is in 1756. This would be absolutely expected behavior. You can test this by putting 28 Dec 1756 for the birth date and you will see that the age doesn't change between death & burial dates. Glen Ballard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Hutson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:33 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a bug?? Glen, all I have for this man birth-wise is a year, 1756. Thanx, Gene Genealogy; "a stirring of the memories" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a bug?? > Gene, > > What is this person's Birth date? Where they born December 30th, 31st, > Jan > 01, or Jan 02? > > I have only seen this when the person died just before a birthday and was > buried after their birthday. > > Glen Ballard > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ------------------- > P. S. 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