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?

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 >