Applications of econometrics and statistics are widely used as tools in many disciplines, as a means to provide quantitative analysis to investigate hypotheses. Examples include economics, sociology and cliometrics. While so far in genealogy such an approach has not been attempted, in this exploratory work we suggest some possibilities for the application of such quantitative tools to the subject. In doing so, we introduce and discuss the FAIT, an application of this framework, and a tool that can help genealogists to be more productive in their fieldwork by estimating years of death, marriage and birth.