Genealogy Chat

I dont usually have a problem with guesstimated ages, but what DOES annoy me is missing places of birth....if you are not sure just put uk, or whatever country. I recently contacted a person with a name in my tree....totally useless.....the reply was " born in the states"...why couldnt he have put that in the first place? Bob

I usually take 20 years off the youngest child, or 25 years if I don't know where the child appears in the list.

Thanks everyone - I thought about 20yrs should do it, I just wanted to know if there was any protocol involved with this sort of thing. I agree it is annoying to find 0 by someones name it gives no clue at all. Also place of birth - at least take a guess - I usually put the same birthplace as the first child for a parent but if i don't know for sure add square brackets[ ] round it. I think I read somewhre that that was the way to do it. Sue.

True, I have a family where the eldest daughter is 21 and youngest is 1 month on the 1891 census. The Mum is only 42. Naomi

I suppose 20-25 might be their age when the first child was born, but usually they were at it for 20 years after that.

I always put 20-25 years too and tick the circa box. Naomi

Lisa I shouldnt have wrote what I did, I am so sorry I just came back to delete it, I suppose I was annoyed about something else. Please accept my apology and put what you like in your tree and ignore stupid people like me. Debbie

Lisa There is nothing more annoying than finding a name but the age is 0, you may as well take a guess otherwise its just so frustrating ive never had to do that. like you I guess about 10 years and put the c what is so hard about that. Debbie

Hi Sue I think when you enter the year of birth, just below is a box that you click on and it comes up as a tick. And then when the year is actualy shown in your tree it will say c1820 which I think means Circa. Debbie

When adding to Tree you have to put an apprximate age.. So if I have a child born in say 1820 and I only know his fathers name - what year would I put for an approx. dob for his father ? Sue

What do you put ??