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Shannon Agee
Shannon Agee ✭
June 2, 2022 in Indexing

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?

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 4, 2022 edited June 4, 2022 Answer ✓

    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

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  • MinnWisRoots
    MinnWisRoots ✭✭✭✭
    June 3, 2022

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

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  • Shannon Agee
    Shannon Agee ✭
    June 3, 2022 edited June 3, 2022
    US, Washington-County Death Registers, 1881-1979 part C MSY1-9XW.jpg

    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.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 4, 2022

    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

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  • Shannon Agee
    Shannon Agee ✭
    June 4, 2022

    Thanks, Melissa! This really helps!!!

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