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Being new to RootsChat I've only just come across your handiwork Brambletye and can only endorse what many others have said : what a brilliant idea! It's obvious from the feedback that many people do find it a problem and have to resort to paper sums or even using a calculator, so well done for helping so many RootsChatters.

Incidentally, one thing I particularly liked about your table was that it gives the birth years as "year1/year2". It has always annoyed me somewhat that so many web-sites and so many people simply give the birth year as census year minus census age (eg. age 10 in 1861 census means born in 1851). Most censuses were taken in late March or early April and so it is 3 times as likely to be the previous year (i.e 1850 in that example). For that reason I have always subtracted another 1 to give the most likely year of birth and it was therefore reassuring to see your table give the result of my example as 1850/51. That does in fact prompt me to ask another question but I shall do so as a new topic (Please see my posting "Family Tree Maker Dates" in Technical Help).

Thanks for that Bob. All is now clear and I've progressed a little way up the learning curve!

I agree that FindMyPast are so much better at this than Ancestry. I have submitted several transcription errors to them in the past week and every time a correction has appeared within 24 hours. Yet another reason why I'm pleased that I recently switched from Ancestry to FindMyPast (as I just mentioned in another thread). 

Many thanks for that useful link Ian. I've only recently taken out a subscription to Find My Past after 2 years with Ancestry and the more I see the more I know it's been a wise move. I find FindMyPast's facilities and presentation are so much better than Ancestry's, which tends to be a bit too "Americanised" for my liking ..... with apologies to our Atlantic cousins! I'm also new to RootsChat but I bet that particular debate (FindMyPast v Ancestry) has been aired many times. I must go and check it out now that this, my first topic, is completed. Thank you everyone for your contribution and particularly Ian for the solution.

I have recently taken out a subscription to Find My Past and their tutorial and help pages refer to a BMD browse facility for searches which cover a long period. Their picture of this is shown below but I just cannot find any way of getting into it. Do any of you know how to do this?