In a message dated 00-06-26 19:27:51 EDT, [email protected] writes: << To guess at year of birth, to fit the right generation is Take away about 20 yrs from the child's birth date.. if you do not have that and do have a marriage date, estimate marriage at age 20ish, then you have your Estimate... If they had Children add one year from the year of the first child born... >> Just be aware that it is only a GUESS! My husband was 49 when we married, 50 when our daughter was born, and 52 when our son was born last year. And HIS father is 31 years older than he is -- PopPop was 83 the year his youngest grandchild was born! Future genealogists are going to be looking at the dates and scratching their heads, figuring that there MUST be a missing generation or two in there, somewhere!! (Especially since I am 47, <grin>) Good thing my husband and I are both genealogists, hmmm? Now, if only our kids are interested enough in the information to keep copies of it for THEIR children and grandchildren... Lynn researching in PA: ADDAMS, OP DEN GRAEFF, THEISSEN/TYSON, KUNDERS/CONARD, UMSTAT, PANNEBECKER/PENNYPACKER, ROOT/RUTT, UMSTAT/UMSTEAD, WENGER/WANGER, BONSALL, HALDEMAN/HALDERMAN, MEYLING, KREEK, FRAZIER, DAUTHENDEY, YARNALL, YAEGER, REILLY, DUNN, McHUGH, ROBERTS, ROBINSON, MANZ and probably others that I missed!