Quote from: http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/classdoc.htm#Partone In estimating year of birth- from age in a census record, - keep in mind the "official" date of the census. In the latter part of the 1800s, this date was June 1. Ages were supposed to be recorded as of that date, even though it might be September before the enumerator finished his rounds. Thus the year of birth for a person who is age 10 at June 1, 1850. has a 5/12 chance of being 1840 and a 7/12 chance of being 1839. Jean, hope this helps get you closer to month of birth~ brenda Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore kingsley@aol.com http://members.aol.com/fiddlerben/gtindex.html surnames: Wolfgram, Kratochvil, Secor/Sicard, Jacques, Leguerre, Vallee and and