Question Showing two ages that differ

Is it feasible to omit a calculated age when the record has an age explicitly stated?

We hide the calculated age when it is *different* from the recorded age.

I find it really useful/interesting to see these differences.

You could change the logic here:

github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/blob/mai...t-date.phtml#L85-L91

fisharebest wrote:

We hide the calculated age when it is *different* from the recorded age.

I find it really useful/interesting to see these differences.

I’m not sure I understand. My image shows that it is different but not hidden.

I agree that there is value in seeing the difference, especially if it is not within rounding error.  But it might be confusing to visitors.  Maybe a small icon for which a hover (or click) would have a pop-up saying or change the tag text to "Age in record:" and put it on a separate line and change "aged" in the parentheses to "calculated age"
or both.
?

WGroleau wrote:

I’m not sure I understand. My image shows that it is different but not hidden.

OK, I see why. The cited lines only apply if ($tag === 'DEAT' …)
My example was a census, and a browser search of said it was not found in that file. Also, the comment above the code is "Only show age-difference for events that occur after death, not facts" which would not apply to a census record that shows the person as living.

> I’m not sure I understand. My image shows that it is different but not hidden.

The calculated age would be hidden if it was the SAME as the recorded age.

In your example, the calculated age is 16y and the recorded age is 17y. So it is displayed.

fisharebest wrote:

The calculated age would be hidden if it was the SAME as the recorded age.

OK, no problem; I guess you omitted "not" before "different"

But am I right that the referenced file will not change how CENS is displayed?

WGroleau wrote:

Is it feasible to omit a calculated age when the record has an age explicitly stated?

I like how it is dislayed...

because often in the (church-)records there is a given age, and this is very often different from the "real" age...
so I use the age mentioned in record for the fact entry, and if its different from the real age, the calc. age will be displayed before the entered age...

HerzScheisse wrote:

I like how it is dislayed...
because often in the (church-)records there is a given age, and this is very often different from the "real" age...
so I use the age mentioned in record for the fact entry, and if its different from the real age, the calc. age will be displayed before the entered age...

Being able to see the difference is useful, and also in my case, the difference between an estimated age and a calculated age. But I'd rather it be displayed in a way that won't confuse visitors.

For what it's worth, I have one ancestor who gained only eight years each US census.

WGroleau wrote:

... But I'd rather it be displayed in a way that won't confuse visitors.

maybe you can write a FAQ entry (in case you are using this) to "teach" your tree visitors how these dates are used and displayed... Like I often do...
and maybe they are kinda curious why there are 2 dates displayed... so they can figure out whats causing these two entries...

WGroleau wrote:

For what it's worth, I have one ancestor who gained only eight years each US census.

I can beat that! 10-12 years! Its a child of one of my ancestors who went to the U.S. and A. Dont know how this could happen... but they written down 1848 as Birth year... but its 1858... and even on his thombstone they messed up his birth year... 2 additional years... the research to prove that its the same person from my records took me some months... -.-