I haven't been following this conversation so forgive my question: Where did this death or birth occur? Shirley IN On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:25:14 -0400, Dennis Kowallek <kowallek@iglou.com> wrote: >>The Gregorian Date Calculator, one of the Tools found in Personal >>Ancestral File (PAF), the genealogy program developed by the Church of >>Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints (LDS) calculates the birth date as >>Saturday, 16 September 1797. > >That's odd. Legacy's date calculator says 17 Sep 1797. I just counted >backwards 10 months and 19 days from 5 Aug of this year and landed on 16 >Sep. So there must be a bug in Legacy's date calculator and I am off to >report it. Now that I look at the problem, both answers are correct. It all depends on the direction you count. 38 years, 10 months, and 19 days forward from 17 Sep 1797 gives you 5 Aug 1836. But 38 years, 10 months, and 19 days backward from 5 Aug 1836 gives you 16 Sep 1797. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to come up with the reason for this. ;-) But this poses an interesting question. When we see quotations like this (I assume Nancy was looking at a tombstone in this case), which method/date is correct? One almost has to get into the head of the person who carved the tombstone to figure this out. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006