Well, it is specially iffy considering that many Irish married only when there was room on the farm and many first married well into their 30's. Many Americans in the South married at 18 or younger, but most of mine were 23 to 28 (the women) which really trashes the estimates. When I am totally without an idea as to birth date, I use 25 years before the first child I know and format it @1825ish <G> if that doesn't say I am at sea I don't know what does <G> Eliz On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> wrote: > I would go one step further and chuck the calculation in the bin :-) > > Its about as logical as saying that men married at 25 and women at 21 > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > >> As for the intergenerational-intervals article, granted its conclusions >> may not be easily extrapolated to our Irish Catholic populations of the >> 18th or 19th centuries, but it does caution that rule-of-thumb >> calculations using generation lengths should be considered gross >> estimates. >> >> Thanks again. >> PJ > ****************************** > Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message