FamilySearch is not set up to sort only by age brackets, it is designed to search a number of criteria using age brackets, but not alone. One of the issues you would find in looking for supercentenarians in FamilySearch is, FamilySearch does not automatically determine a person is deceased just because they pass a certain age. It requires someone to actually go into the system and change them from living to deceased, so this would definitely mess up your statistical analysis of age. You can check this knowledge article: How does FamilySearch determine if someone is deceased
Is there any way that FamilySearch can allow users to search for records based on a person's age?
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Is there any way that FamilySearch.org can allow users to search for records based on a person's age? I mean for instance doing a search for both the birth year 1899 and an age range of 110 to 130. Doing it the conventional way—1899 for the birth year and 2009 to 2025 for the death year—results in an awful lot of false positives of people who never claimed to reach an age of 110+. How do I achieve a better search result in regards to this?
I am very interested in researching and validating the ages of extremely old people, especially if they are supercentenarians, specifically people aged 110+. But it would significantly help to have a much easier way of finding them, especially for certain parts of the world, such as Latin America.
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I mean finding past supercentenarians or at least past supercentenarian claims based on their death records. Because US supercentenarian claims at least often end up in the media, while I don't know if this is also true for Latin American supercentenarian claims and, in any case, I don't have easy access to Latin American media like I have for old US newspapers through Google Books (for free).
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FamilySearch is not set up to sort only by age brackets, it is designed to search a number of criteria using age brackets, but not alone. One of the issues you would find in looking for supercentenarians in FamilySearch is, FamilySearch does not automatically determine a person is deceased just because they pass a certain age. It requires someone to actually go into the system and change them from living to deceased, so this would definitely mess up your statistical analysis of age. You can check this knowledge article: How does FamilySearch determine if someone is deceased
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I meant searching death records by age.
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IF the age or year of birth information has been indexed, you can use a small range for the approximate year of birth. Not all record sets have that information or have that detail indexed. And recent death records are often not online.
For example, NYC Municipal Deaths are available through 1948. If want to search for those who possibly lived to be more than 100, put 1840 - 1848 in the birth field and 1946 - 1948 in the death fields and narrow your search to just that record set. Obviously, you can adjust those two windows to search for earlier candidates.
Just be aware that date or even approximate year of birth on a death record is often not reliable.
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Yes, I know how to do that, and this can generally be done for US records, but for Latin American records, there are often a lot of false positives because for instance a death date of 0010 January gets interpreted as someone dying in 2010.
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I would suggest you just export your search results to a spreadsheet or database where you can sort/filter them, add additional metadata, and otherwise manage them in a far more flexible way. The limit is 50,000 results but you can always break them up by sex etc.
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