In a message dated 3/22/01 9:50:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, darryl2@gate.net writes: > I have a birth year as 1856 > Death date as Aug. 9 1889 > Age at death 32 years 9 months 13 days Birth date on or about Oct. 26, 1856 > Can any one explain to me how to find out the exact birth date from the info > please.Everytime I tried to calculate I came up with a different month and > year. I use the 8870 formula found in Everton's Genealogical Helper some years back. Take the Date of death (see example) and subtract the age at death. From that total subtract 8870 to get birth date. Example: Date of Death, yyyymmdd 18890809 Age of death, yrsmoda 320913 Sutract from above Total 18569896 Subtract 8870 Birth date 18561028 yyyymmdd Oct. 28, 1856 Sunlight bright overcomes night. Birds singing in the trees. Cars pass by on the street. I awake to another day. --Jim

At 08:38 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, JimBrownG@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 3/22/01 9:50:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, darryl2@gate.net >writes: > > > I have a birth year as 1856 > > Death date as Aug. 9 1889 > > Age at death 32 years 9 months 13 days > > Birth date on or about Oct. 26, 1856 > > > Can any one explain to me how to find out the exact birth date from the >info please.Everytime I tried to calculate I came up with a different >month and >year. > >I use the 8870 formula found in Everton's Genealogical Helper some years >back. >Take the Date of death (see example) and subtract the age at death. From that >total subtract 8870 to get birth date. > > Example: > Date of Death, yyyymmdd 18890809 > Age of death, yrsmoda 320913 Sutract from above > Total 18569896 > Subtract 8870 > Birth date 18561028 yyyymmdd > Oct. 28, 1856 Close, but not correct, no doubt because of leap years! The correct date of birth is Oct. 27, 1856 using the Date Calculator in the PAF programs. George W. Page