Can I buy in here? I have found that the dates and ages given by family members are very often out by months and years. My grandmother was telling everybody that she was 100 years old and nobody believed her. They all said that she was only 98. I have no idea how they came to their decision. It was when I went down to the local MLA's office in Redcliffe to ask about her telegram from the Queen that seemed so important to her and not to anybody else. The lady in the office made a phone call and we learned that she was about to have her 101st birthday. This was confirmed from her birth certificate of which I saw a copy. By coincidence and a side I have a photo here of my grandson at 1 years old and sitting on my grandmother's knee at what turned out to be her 100th birthday even though every body said it was only her 99th. Albert Grulke -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judy Meibusch Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 11:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SEQ-Germans] How to calculate DoB from a veryspecificageatdeath on Death Cert.? Di I would be a bit wary about the age still... Many times I have found that family will know a birthday [or think they do] and assuming that the person was so many years old when they died, do the calculations and all goes on funeral card, gravestone and anywhere else including death certificate. Years sometimes get very "mangled " towards the end of one's life. A pain I know.... I have a dear friend who was organising her mother's 80th birthday celebration when her mother quietly took her aside and admitted she was 85 :) ! She'd been lying since whenever. If she hadn't told anyone... Judy > > Thank you Bob & Claire and Noel & Del > > I used Bob's suggestion and it worked very well. I didn't know my free > Personal Ancestral File had a date calculator: it was easy to use. > There are lots of things it has that I didn't realise despite the fact > I've been using it for years. > > Now I have to assume my Great Grand Father "fudged" his age (down 4 > years) when he came to Queensland as a "free passenger" in 1882 with > his first wife. > > I suppose he thought aged 29 looked better for job prospects than aged > 32. > > Back to the Drawing Board for another hunt for his parents! > > I still have a suspicion that his second wife has the name of his > father wrong. > > The death certificate is a transcription from the Mackay Registry I > bought in 1976. > > To be sorted out another day. > > Thanks again for your help. > > Di > > > > >> Bob wrote: > > If you have Family Tree Maker or a similar programme >> that calculates ages >> plug in the dates and ages and let it do it's thing. >> > I came up with the date of Wednesday, 1 Aug 1849. > > >> Di wrote: >> Does anyone know how I can easily calculate a date of birth? > > > A List for the research for the descendants of the Germans who > migrated to South East Queensland, Australia. > Archives - > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > A List for the research for the descendants of the Germans who migrated to South East Queensland, Australia. Archives - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-QLD-SE-Germans.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message