In a message dated 12/22/03 10:00:55 AM Central Standard Time, SHAFFER-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Hello folks. Recently I updated to Windows XP and in doing so I forgot to save some interesting tidbits and facts etc that I was saving in some past e-mails. One thing I'm missing is something I had gotten from some of you fellow Shaffer-Rootsweb subscribers, and that is where to find a website that has a age calculator for gravestones. You know, when you either have the date of death or birth and just how many years/months/days old the person was, but want to find the missing date you don't have.......you know what I mean. Appreciate any help, thanks! Dave Shaffer Columbus, IN >> To do this calculation by hand when the online calculator is not available, use the 8870 formula.(the calculator calls this the 30 day month length) If a person died May 6, 1889 at age 71 years, 7 months and 9 days: 18890506 Year, day, month of death (yyyymmdd) -710709 Subtract age at death (yymmdd) _________ 18179797 -8870 Subtract constant 8870 ________ 18170927 Born 27 Sept. 1817 (yyyymmdd) This person was born on September 27, 1817 Good Luck! AlvaSue Dorsey