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If a full death date is given and a birth year, is it proper to give an age.

Carter, Philo Vinson
Carter, Philo Vinson ✭
July 31, 2021 in Indexing

I am indexing Dominican republic records, many of which have a full death date and a birth year. If I give an age it could be slightly off but would give a researcher an idea of the age of the person. What is the proper thing to do?

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 31, 2021 Answer ✓

    Unless Project Instructoons say otherwise, we don’t do calculations of ages from dates nor dates from ages. Let the Researchers do those calculations.

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