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Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 20:07
by glio
I am at last really trying to get to grips with version 4 and am trying to create a sentence in relation to facts recorded for a Death Certificate. One of the fields is Age: (at death) so I tried the following in the Fact Definition window, neither of which work!

{individual} died {date} {place} aged {age}

{individual} died {date} {place} aged {AgeAt(%INDI%, [deathage]}

Is there a way to pick up the age at death?

Geoff Culbertson
Petersfield, Hampshire, UK


ID:3857

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 21:11
by Jane
Currently I don't think the age field is supported in sentences.

There is a wish list item for this

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=357

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 21:45
by glio
Thanks Jane,
I have added a comment on the Wish List page. I will survive without this flexibility!

Regards

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 16:05
by David1944
Geoff,

Try this:

{individual} died {date} {place}

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 23:59
by jeemo
David

Thankyou for that; works a treat.  One thing I found with it is the Capital A on both Age and At are required.  Lower case didn't work for me.

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 10:56
by David1944
{individual} died {date} {place}

Please be aware that the 'age at death' is a calculated age and doesn't pick up the age shown in the 'Age' box. A problem may occur if you only have a year given for a date of birth and not the full dob.

Anyone (Simon?) know how to pick up from the 'Age' box?  

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 14:16
by PeterR
I have found that the following works OK:

{individual} died {date} {place}

It seems that the only requirement is for the first 'A' in 'Age-at' to be upper-case.

However, the only reference I can find in FH's Help file is:
There are also 3 other qualifiers which can only be used with some dates, which give a person's age at the date in question. These qualifiers are not discussed here.
which occurs in Date Formats.  Does anyone (Simon? Jane?) know where these 3 additional qualifiers are discussed? Or even what the other 2 qualifiers are?

Fact definition - Age at death

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 17:07
by PeterR
I've found the answer to my last question.  The other 2 date qualifiers are :Husband_at_age and :Wife_at_age which work for family events, e.g. marriage, and are used in some standard text schemes.  Still not found any documentation, though.