Family Historian User Group

Why do I not see any age (in the age column) for burials, but I do for any other fact such as birth, baptism, census & death.

The Burial Fact normally has a Normal Time Frame of "Post Death" and, as per the FH Help: ".....Finally, time frames are also used in the Facts tab of the Property Box, to determine whether or not age information should be calculated, if not provided. Age information is always calculated unless the Time Frame is Birth, Pre-Birth, Post-Death or none...."

Very rarely is the actual "age at Burial" known - the grave stone may give an age at Death - and in practice burial usually happened fairly quickly afterwards.

Death is possibly the last moment at which we can be said to have an age - "the dead shall grow not old"?

I have modified my burial fact to inlude field for age, it was just a simple matter of editing the fact

When a burial register gives an age it is the (alleged) age at death. So I create a death event to record that age, and cite the burial record as a source for the age at death, even if I know nothing else about the death event. People don't go on getting older after they have died. (If someone's birthday fell between the date of death and the date of burial would you say they were older when they were buried than when they died?)

I have separate death and burial events, but record specific ages only where reported in that event’s cited source. So a GRO age at death doesn’t get copied to the burial, and a burial register age doesn’t get copied to death.

Where ages are available for both death and burial, they don’t always agree, probably due to a combination of different informants and mis-recording.