Thread:Arthur de Moraes Silva Barbosa/@comment-258494-20191018190324/@comment-33034960-20191024093005

"Need" may not be the most appropriate word. But I absolutely disagree that this kind of information is "just an interesting piece of trivia". I know a little more about gerontological research, and having children or not is an important subject in these studies.

Or, to put it another way: every piece of biographical information can be labeled as "trivia" if we  arbitrarily decide to label it as such (e. g. centenarian parents/siblings, occupation, participation in military conflicts etc). What then remains? Validation status, life span (in years and days) and  geographic placement of births and deaths, related to former and present state borders? For a researcher in gerontology, the information about whether a supercentenarian had children or not, is much more important than whether he or she was born, say, in a vastly multi-ethnic entity, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire (category). (The present-day countries of birth and death, according to today's borders, are in any case two different existing categories).