you're very welcome; I hope it wasn't too confusing to understand. Joyce On 12/16/2011 10:46 AM, Maxine wrote: > THANK YOU. I shall keep that info. > > On 12/16/2011 7:41 AM, JEBard wrote: >> For those without a date calculator, you simply subtract the age from >> the date of death, *matching* month/day/year. Since the death date was >> Oct (10), 20, 1854 and she was 1 month, 2 days, and 71 years, >> subtract 1 from 10 to get 9 (or Sept.), 2 from 20 to get 18 days, and >> 71 years from 1854 to get 1783 (year) making her likely birth-date: >> September 18, 1783. >> If you need to *carry over* sums so you can subtract, you just need >> to remember to convert 1 year to 12 months and 1 month to 30 days >> For example: if a death date is 4th August 2000 and the age at >> death was 50 years, 10 months, 10 days your figures would look like >> this: 8 mo 4 day 2000 yr (date of death) >> - _10 mo 10 day 50 yr_ (age) >> Since the top numbers are smaller, you must do some converting. You >> subtract 1 year from 2000 so it becomes 1999, then add 12 months to the >> 8 (because there are 12 months in a year - you are just moving a year >> from *year* to *months*) which gives you 20 months. Of course you now >> also need to move a *month* over to *days* so the number of months >> becomes 19 and the number of days becomes 34. There is of course >> possibility of error here as one would need to be aware of leap years >> and also adjust for the number of days in a particular month (which I >> didn't) but you would at least have a *ballpark* figure of a birth date >> with-in a couple of days of the real birth date that should make hunting >> down birth information easier. You are now subtracting as follows: >> 19 mo 34 days 1999 year >> - _10 mo 10 days 50 years >> _ 9 mo 24 days 1949 tears >> So this fictitious person would have been born on or near the 24 of Sept >> in 1949. I hope this isn't too confusing! You can of course also use >> this method to calculate age if you know the date of death and the date >> of birth. We used to use this in the school where I worked to determine >> as closely as possibly the age of a child at the time of being given a >> certain test. Being aware of doing this the *long way* with-out aid of a >> computer program might come in handy if you are researching somewhere >> where computers are not available and *need to know*! Of course if >> there is a computer handy and a conversion program, all the better! LOL >> Joyce >> >> On 12/16/2011 9:12 AM, Maxine wrote: >>> Good morning, >>> WOW, I just received copies of the family Bible of my Great Great >>> Great Grandparents (1790-1850). >>> It states my ggg grandmother died 20 Oct 1854 at 71 years, 1 month and 2 >>> days. How can I calculate her exact birth date? >>> Thanks so much. >>> Maxine >>> >>> ******************** >>> >>> Gen-Newbie's website: >>> >>> http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> ******************** >> >> Gen-Newbie's website: >> >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >