Indeed, I have people whose very existence would be unknown to me except for discovering their gravestone, and the information thereon, in an old rural private cemetery. Therefore, a birthdate calculated from that information, however "imprecise" it might be, is all I'm likely ever to have. Rick Van Dusen On 9/22/2015 10:19 AM, Lee Hoffman/KY via wrote: : : : > You asked the right question there. Trying to determine a date from > one date and the number of day/months/years requires that you know > how those days/months/years was calculated. : : : > About all we can do is calculate dates is see what the result is. If > the result is reasonable based on other evidence, that is the date I > use. : : : > Lee

In these cases I always put a note in the Memo "Birthdate calculated from age at death of X years, Y months, Z days." Marsha L. Ensminger marshaensminger@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Van Dusen via <tmg@rootsweb.com> To: tmg@rootsweb.com Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [TMG] Date calculator in TMG Indeed, I have people whose very existence would be unknown to me except for discovering their gravestone, and the information thereon, in an old rural private cemetery. Therefore, a birthdate calculated from that information, however "imprecise" it might be, is all I'm likely ever to have. Rick Van Dusen On 9/22/2015 10:19 AM, Lee Hoffman/KY via wrote: : : : > You asked the right question there. Trying to determine a date from > one date and the number of day/months/years requires that you know > how those days/months/years was calculated. : : : > About all we can do is calculate dates is see what the result is. If > the result is reasonable based on other evidence, that is the date I > use. : : : > Lee The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 9/22/2015 11:34 PM, Marsha Ensminger via wrote: > In these cases I always put a note in the Memo "Birthdate calculated from age at death of X years, Y months, Z days." > I enter the calculated date as "circa," which is most easily done by closing the Date Calculator and then pasting the date, which the Date Calculator as automatically copied to the clipboard, in the Date field. I then enter in the citation that the source "show age X yr Y mo Z days at death 3 Jan 1924." I think this accurately reflects the known facts - that the date is "about" this day. I find very annoying the practice of some submitters to FindAGrave, for example, to enter a date as if actually known when all they seem to have is the computed date. Terry Reigel