Issue with "Age", "Age years", "Age months", "Age days" fields
Hello,
I'm trying to correct the age of a person on the record of his death certificate.
When I open the death certificate at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHJ-BQVR-239R-H?view=index&lang=en&groupId=&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AX9PX-54NM&action=view (it's the one on the left), then the FamilySearch interface shows me in the Age section only "Age months: 7". The number of days and the number of years are missing.
When I click on the edit symbol next to Age, then it shows me either that I entered "Age months: 7", "Age days: 26", "Age years: 43", or it shows me "Age months: 7", "Age days: 26", "Age: 43" (so regular 'age' without years): I tried a couple of times and I have the impression that it gets changed again after a while.
When I open the page about the death certificate at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9PX-54NM?aihint=&lang=en then the FamilySearch interface showed me first only "7 months 26 days" and wrong estimated birth year 1932, but after trying to edit those age fields a couple of times and trying some combinations, it shows correctly as "43 years 7 months 26 days" with correct estimated birth year 1889.
Is there maybe a trick to make the age show correctly in the webinterface which shows the original document? Possibly I missed this somewhere in the faq or documentation, but is there maybe guidelines on how to enter the age when the document contains the number years, months and days? Are the "Age" field and the "Age years" field incompatible with each other?
I'm very new to FamilySearch. Any pointers in how to handle this correctly, are appreciated.
Kind regards and thank you in advance,
Dries
Answers
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I've had a poke around in this data, the relevant stored metadata values (which align with the visible change history) are:
label
type of field
text
contributor of latest modification
date/time last modified
PR_AGE_MONTHS_ORIG
Original [and in this case editable]
7
cis.user.MM3P-J25T [you]
20/04/2026 13:34:40
PR_AGE_YEARS_ORIG
Original [and in this case editable]
43
cis.user.MM3P-J25T [you]
21/04/2026 07:42:35
PR_AGE_DAYS_ORIG
Original [and in this case editable]
26
cis.user.MM3P-J25T [you]
20/04/2026 13:34:40
PR_AGE
Interpreted [i.e. calculated by FS, not directly editable]
43 years 7 months 26 days
[no contributor given as this is a calculated field]
21/04/2026 07:42:36
Looks like this has worked correctly, with the displayed FS-calculated Age field correctly deriving its inputs from the fields you have edited.
If that doesn't help, please do post again!
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