Hi List, Have a question on the document "Men of Bern". Is the year 1798 the magic number? I have some possible relatives listed.......some names list year of birth and others list age. So can I assume if a name list his age at 44, he was born in 1754, and if a name list his year born at 1766, he was age 32? thanks, robert

According to the introduction, page xxiii, the list in the book is really a list of those citizens who took the Citizen's Oath of Allegiance to Napoleon's new Helvetic Republic, and the day designated for oath-taking was 17 Aug 1798, a Friday. Since it applied to men aged 20-70, there doesn't seem to have been any premium for exact accuracy in the recording of ages, so I suppose they should be taken with a grain of salt, as with all age reports in that era. Harold > Hi List, > Have a question on the document "Men of Bern". Is the year > 1798 the magic number? I have some possible relatives > listed.......some names list year of birth and others list age. So can > I assume if a name list his age at 44, he was born in 1754, and if a > name list his year born at 1766, he was age 32? > > thanks, > robert > > ______________________________ Harold Henderson, researching HENDERSON, DAVIDSON, ANDERSSON, STENBERG, THRALL, FLINT, SCHRIBER, JOSS, SCHOLES, MOZLEY, BOREN, LINHART, BASSETT, BLISS, BURDICK, CRANDALL and many more http://wc.rootsweb.com/~hendersonscholes http://justonestory.com