Consequences on using Stillborn events

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Presently using Gramps 6.0.5 under Fedora 42

I am in the process of reviewing all my genealogical data and making it more in line with current Gramps trends. Gramp 5.2 introduced Stillborn event type. To remain consistent with existing data, in such a case I create Birth and Death events on the same date but this does not make a difference with a live birth followed on the same day by a death. Only notes would disambiguate between both circumstances.

Fundamentally, stillbirth and perinatal deaths are not the same thing. So I’m thinking of adopting the “new” event type but I’d like to know what this implies:

  • does it disturb age computation?
  • how is it collected in statistics gramplets, such as stats and age stats in the dashboard?
  • is Stillborn considered both as birth and death events so that persons as not flagged as lacking birth date?
  • how does it impact reports?

Have you any advice on usage?

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Yes. Stillbirth (translated as Mort-né in French) is a standard Gramps event type.

It is defined as a life event, birth fallback and death fallback.

3

A person having Stillborn does not display in the Age Stats gramplet. In contrast a person with the same Birth and Death date shows in the 0-5 range. A Stillborn has no age whereas the same date events have an age, even if it was only an hour.

4

Mmmh … i am using the 0-5 age slot as an indication of consanguinity effect. How can I get the ratio of stillbirths to live births and display it straight in the gramplet?

5

I am using Stillbirth only when the documentation clearly shows it to be the case. If documents show a birth and a death on the same date, I will use two events unless it indicates Stillborn.

6

This is exactly my goal. I want to make a distinction between the two cases, which I have not presently.

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The Statistics gramplet counts Stillbirth as a person without a Birth event. It does the same if a person only has a Baptism event.