Subj: [LI-Rooters] Date: 12/11/98 9:35:40 AM Eastern Standard Time From: wreck_and_rescue@juno.com (Van R. Field) Sender: LI-Rooters-owner@aplusdata.com Reply-to: LI-Rooters@aplusdata.com To: li-rooters@aplusdata.com The following is probably familiar to the old hands. Some of the newcomers might like to try it to convert the years, months and days found on old tombstones. Give it a try. The e-mail may scramble it a bit so you may have to look twice. Regards, Van Field <THE 8870 FORMULA for TOMBSTONES> Tombstone inscription: "Here lies John Smith died May 6, 1889, 71 years, 7 months and 9 days old.." >From the yr-mo-dy of death subtract the yr-mo-dy the person lived; from that result subtract 8870, and the answer is the yr-mo-dy of birth. Example: died 1889, may 6 18890506 age 71y,7m,9d -710709 subtracting u get 18179797 subtract again -8870 answer is 18170927 which is Sept 27, 1817