Genealogy Chat

New information regarding searching for a Death by adding the Date of Birth or the Age at Death. Read the info available on the Search Page - the start of it is: "This page gives you information about how to do searches that specify the Age at Death or the Date of Birth when searching for death entries. Up to March 1969 the index records contain the Age at Death, after that it is the Date of Birth, but because FreeBMD calculates one from the other you can do either search on all years covered by FreeBMD. Being able to do a Date of Birth search when the index only has the Age at Death is useful because you may well know the Date of Birth, from other sources, but not the Age at Death. If you don't know when the person died knowing the Date of Birth would be of little help in doing the search without this special FreeBMD facility. To do one of these searches you use the Death Age/DOB box on the search form. The following sections tell you what to put in this box." ................................................. Not used it yet but it sounds very useful. Vera Manchester

Thanks Vera. Yes this looks very interesting, I intend to give this a try. The page http://www(.)freebmd(.)org(.)uk/aad-search-help(.)shtml explains it all - just don't look at the section "How the Date of Birth is Calculated" unless you like algebra!!