How about using an Event for the christening when it isn't soon after birth (and you don't have birth date but have reason to believe it's substantially earlier than christening)? This would avoid having erroneous ages calculated by Legacy.

                                Ruth Ann

Ruth wrote:
But Legacy already uses the christening date instead of a missing
birth date in many circumstances, e.g. on the Individual's Information
screen it calculates age at burial from a christening date if the
birth date is empty.  I don't see why the same logic could not be used
for age at marriage.  And your ancestor would not show as 11 years old
as you have the birth date for him.  If you didn't have his birth
date, that calculation would challenge you to look again at the
information you had for the individual and so would be of benefit to
research.

What I like about Legacy is that I don't have to add guesstimates of
birth years for people unless I have evidence of their ages from
census or death records or such like.


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:53:57 -0800, JimTerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Gene,

I don't see away around this.  I have an ancestor born in 1818,
christened 1823, and married at the age of 16 in 1835.  When I remove
his birth date, the Marriage Information screen shows him being 11 years
old at the time he married!

Jim Terry
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