I see that on the family statistics 'Age in year of marriage' section that the age appears to calculated from the christening date not the birth date. Is this a known anomaly? Is there any kind of solution?
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Where are you seeing this? I can't find any wrong marriage ages on my site. I have baptisms, not christenings. What is the difference? Are christenings always done on infants?
Have you tried upgrading to PGV v. 4.3?
George
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Baptism is Biblical (the word used in translations, anyway). Christening is not used as a Biblical translation and is a newer word. Opinion varies by denomination. Some, especially the Baptists, say that Baptism has to be of an adult and, barring medical reasons and the like, should be by total immersion. Some denominations may not recognise Christenings in their own churches and some not at all. Christening is anointing with water rather than immersion, and can be done at any age. Many denominations use the word Baptism to refer to anointing with water as an equivalent word to Christening. In the cases where someone has had both done the Baptism will have been the second one, by total immersion, and as an adult.
David
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As far as I'm aware I have the latest version having only downloaded it a couple of days ago.
The anomaly occurs in Charts -> Statistics -> Families. The section under 'Age in Marriage'; I have youngest male 7 years, youngest female 30 months. Both were christened later in life, the male at age 17 and the female at age 18.
These were Anglican ceremonies in England in the 19th century so wouldn't have involved total immersion. I tend to follow the principles outlined by david_ledger so full immersion I consider baptism rather than the pouring of water over the baptisees head which I refer to as christening. The Anglican church actually refers to their ceremony as being a baptism, christening seems to be a more colloquial equivalent.
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I see that on the family statistics 'Age in year of marriage' section that the age appears to calculated from the christening date not the birth date. Is this a known anomaly? Is there any kind of solution?
Hi Simon,
Where are you seeing this? I can't find any wrong marriage ages on my site. I have baptisms, not christenings. What is the difference? Are christenings always done on infants?
Have you tried upgrading to PGV v. 4.3?
George
Baptism is Biblical (the word used in translations, anyway). Christening is not used as a Biblical translation and is a newer word. Opinion varies by denomination. Some, especially the Baptists, say that Baptism has to be of an adult and, barring medical reasons and the like, should be by total immersion. Some denominations may not recognise Christenings in their own churches and some not at all. Christening is anointing with water rather than immersion, and can be done at any age. Many denominations use the word Baptism to refer to anointing with water as an equivalent word to Christening. In the cases where someone has had both done the Baptism will have been the second one, by total immersion, and as an adult.
David
As far as I'm aware I have the latest version having only downloaded it a couple of days ago.
The anomaly occurs in Charts -> Statistics -> Families. The section under 'Age in Marriage'; I have youngest male 7 years, youngest female 30 months. Both were christened later in life, the male at age 17 and the female at age 18.
These were Anglican ceremonies in England in the 19th century so wouldn't have involved total immersion. I tend to follow the principles outlined by david_ledger so full immersion I consider baptism rather than the pouring of water over the baptisees head which I refer to as christening. The Anglican church actually refers to their ceremony as being a baptism, christening seems to be a more colloquial equivalent.
Does changing the event to baptism change the calculation?
Is there anything amiss with the raw gedcom record? For example, 2 birth dates.