In the Death fact type, I’m trying to write a sentence which accurately reports a person’s age at the date of death. Can anyone please suggest how I can write a sentence reporting an infant death “at the age of X months”? All I’m getting by using Person:Age is “at the age of 0”. I’ve tried using Person:Age:Months but this doesn’t seem to work.
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You can’t. The ‘age of 0’ is as close as you can get.
You have to customize the fact for a person…
Use the description line --put in something like at the age of 6 months and then eliminate
< [person:Age]> from that one fact type–so you sentence now read John Doe died at the age of 6 moths at 400 Rose Lane, London, England…
EDIT-some people like to use the description field for cause of death–and you can still do that and the age–you would put in the description field
of pneumonia at the age of 6 months.
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Thanks nkess. I get your suggestions, it’s just that I was trying to find a way of writing it into the default sentence for the Death fact.
Steve-- not going to happen as from what I can tell RM ONLY sorts facts by whole years–if a person died 2 months Before their 100th Birthday-- it says they were 99 not 99 and 10 months…
Besides description, a workaround would be to use the default death sentence then customize on an individual basis either by using a switch or writing it into the sentence…
a switch can be used for a lot of things BUT basically what is on the left side of the | ( line) refers to a male and what is on the right side of
the | (line) refer to a female so you would use <% son| daughter> switch to say person was the son of etc…
So with a switch, you would customize the sentence with [person] died< [Desc]> <[person:Age:At ]<% months | months>>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>.–inserting the number of months on the correct side—so if I put
[person] died< [Desc]> <[person:Age:At ]<% months | 6 months>>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>. --my sentence would read Sally Long died at 06 months or vice versa–it picks up the 0 from the year-- in this case no way around it…
Another way around it is to just hardwire the sentence—[person] died< [Desc]> at months< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>. again inserting the number before months—[person] died< [Desc]> at 2 months< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>. --so sentence reads Jeff Long died at 2 months…
Personally would use description as it’s just easier overall for the few that I have ( compared to the larger amount I have who died over age 1)-- and I just have to remember to plug in the info in description…
IF I wanted to use either one of the other 2, I would make a new role called less than a year under death and store it there so that when and IF I needed it, I could just easily click on it and copy and paste it in under the CUSTOMIZE on the person’s edit screen…
Best I can do.–so it all comes down to how important is it that it shows months–since I have a several close relatives who died when less than a year-- it is important that I show that as it had a huge effect on the families involved–parents / grandparents/ siblings etc…
Nancy, thank you for your detailed reply, I appreciate your help. From what you say it seems I won’t be able to do what I wanted, so I’ll have to work round it as you suggest. I’m interested in how you use <% months. Clever stuff !!
As I said Steve a switch can be used for a lot of things BUT basically what is on the left side of the | ( line) refers to a male and what is on the right side of
the | (line) refer to a female so you would use <% son| daughter> switch to say person was the son of etc…
So say a couple has 5 kids and I want to add the parents to a birth/ death/ marriage record etc, so the switch would be son| dau ( or possibly son of| dau of BUT in your example IF I wanted to use a switch, I had to put MONTHS on both sides to get it right —note you could also use days instead of months–months or days could be used for a lot of things such as my niece broke her foot when 5 months old-- Richie was 9 months old when he when he had a head injury in a car accident etc–At 4 months Frankie started having seizures…
As for where you MIGHT use a switch you could use it on:
Twins or Triplets to indicate that Joe and sis Cathy were twins…
Census
Bios and obits— John was the .nephew of…
Residence
Occupation --actor/ actress
Wills----- to indicate the maiden name and married name of an heir-- so it would say Cathy Lee wife of Mark Harmon was an heir of…
The list of ways to use it is endless-- all you have to do is figure out how to do it and the placements…
A lot of these would be individual Customized facts or roles that are shared BUT on the wife of for wills, it has to be a customized FAMILY fact to get the hubby’s name in there…
These 2 pages give you a lot of other options
I usually look thru these and try to find something close to what I want to do, then copy their example, paste into note pad/ email etc — I also paste what I originally had in the fact ( if anything) so I can go back to it IF needed- then will try what they had posted on the page— I have found that some on the list such as twins and triplets did NOT work as listed so I played with different variations until I get what I want…