Age unclear at times

Shannon Agee

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/4586541a-d489-4635-afe2-8381c2bd4a63

On this batch most of the ages are obvious but on some instead of 034 or 077 there are three numbers; 406 or 502. Would that mean 4 years and 6 months or 6 years and 4 months?

Melissa S Himes

Great question! They are codes. 0-1 designate years and 2 designates months. 4 designates completed days, 5 designates completed hours, 6 is completed minutes. So, they are all indexed as age 0.

0-1 designate years and 2 designates months.

011 - 11 years

211 - 11 months

411 - 11 days

511 - 11 hours

611 - 11 minutes

406 = 6 days

502 = 2 hours

MinnWisRoots

Your link is not working. What project are you working on?

Shannon Agee

US, Washington—County Death Registers, 1881–1979 [Part C][MSY1-9XW]

Here is a screenshot of the page, the next to last column is the age column. As you can see most start with a 0 but some start with a 4 or 5.

Melissa S Himes

Here's a link to the film (Image number 13). Would have been good to put with the project instructions.

https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?imageGroupNumbers=101140024&rmsId=TH-909-50842-26965-35&imageIndex=12&singleView=true

Shannon Agee

Thanks, Melissa! This really helps!!!