This came to me from another list..... Bill Smothers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi folks! Demographers have studied the phenomenon by which people round off their age in the census enumeration to 5 and 10 year intervals. The tendency to round off is related to age, education and gender among other things: Older people round off more (thus the graphed age distribution looks increasingly peaked (heaped)); less educated people round off more; both men and women round off, but men round upward, to seem older, and women round downward, to appear younger. The point of the foregoing is to suggest why you might want to take the age of some ancestor told the census-taker with a few grains of salt. Grandma or Grandpa might have been fibbing a little. -- Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 479-634-2086 InterNet: robert@wildweasel.net Web site: http://www.wildweasel.net