In a message dated 97-10-16 16:44:33 EDT, jrinscheid@lucent.com writes: > does anybody have a cheap (okay, maybe free) site/calculator they know of for > using death date & age to back into birthdate? How to Figure Dates From Tombstones Let us say you have found the tombstone of an ancestor, and on that stone you find the date of his death and his age at death. You want to determine the date of his birth. He died April 16, 1904. 1904 (year) 4 (month) 16 (days) he was aged - 61 (years) 1 (month) 10 (days) ___________________________ 1843 3 6 =March 6, 1843 But too often it is more complicated than that. He died April 16, 1904. 1904 (years) 4 (months) 16 (days) his age was 83 8 21 So what you do is borow 30 days from April (because April has only 30 days) for a total of 46 days--and borrow 12 months from 1904 for a total of 15 months, having already borrowed a month, so you get: 1904 (year) 4 (months) 16 (days) +12 (months) +30 (days) (take away 1 yr.) (+12 mo., -30 days=1 mo.) (+30 days) ________________________________ 1903 (year) 15 (months) 46 (days) He was born July 25, 1820 in the above case. This was originally from the Sun City Genealogist, publication of Sun City Genealogical Society, Sun City, AZ (summer 1983) Hope they don't mind my posting it here. I have found it useful. Joan Myers Young ==== PENNA-DUTCH Mailing List ==== Forgot how to SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the appropriate one word message to PENNA-DUTCH-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM