I tried the sites that Craig and others mentioned. The best one for my purposes seems to be the second one listed below. Works real well and easy to use. Thanks to those who responded with suggestions. David Myers On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:08:17 -0400 Craig Alan Myers <[email protected]> writes: > > Two calculators that I use are > > http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html > (goes back to 1666) > > It says that $10K in 1770 is about the same as $536,330.47 today. > > Another one that goes back only to 1800 is > > http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ > > The one that Sherry posted seems to be an expired domain. > > Craig Alan Myers ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210

Anything going back that far is very subjective. Even comparing the cost of living today with 30 years ago using the official consumer price index is full of holes, since they specifically exclude certain things from the index (those on Social Security are realizing that fact). Even the Dow Jones average is 'fixed'. If a stock is underperforming, they replace it with a different one to keep the index high. Bill Thomas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Myers Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 8:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRE] Calculator for comparison of wealth I tried the sites that Craig and others mentioned. The best one for my purposes seems to be the second one listed below. Works real well and easy to use. Thanks to those who responded with suggestions. David Myers On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:08:17 -0400 Craig Alan Myers <[email protected]> writes: > > Two calculators that I use are > > http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html > (goes back to 1666) > > It says that $10K in 1770 is about the same as $536,330.47 today. > > Another one that goes back only to 1800 is > > http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ > > The one that Sherry posted seems to be an expired domain. > > Craig Alan Myers ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] ------------------------ ------------------------------- 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