I'm using FTA on a dataset mostly containing people who lived between 1500 and 1800. It'd be really useful to be able to adjust the maximum age used by FTA. Currently, I think it uses 110 years, which theoretically would still have been possible at that time. However, the normal age at death for even the longer lived people in this dataset was generally in the 70s. I think the oldest person I've run across in any of the church records for this area was about 90. Given that a lot of the birth or death dates are currently unknown, or predate existing records, it'd be really useful to be able to trim that 110 down to 90.
I'm using FTA on a dataset mostly containing people who lived between 1500 and 1800. It'd be really useful to be able to adjust the maximum age used by FTA. Currently, I think it uses 110 years, which theoretically would still have been possible at that time. However, the normal age at death for even the longer lived people in this dataset was generally in the 70s. I think the oldest person I've run across in any of the church records for this area was about 90. Given that a lot of the birth or death dates are currently unknown, or predate existing records, it'd be really useful to be able to trim that 110 down to 90.