My ggfather died 29 Jan 1906 at 37 years, 8 months, 27 days. 19060129 - 370827 =18689302 - 8870 18680432 April 32, 1868. Sorry, April only has 30 days. One important thing to mention, on this topic: In computing birth dates from age at death, remember that people didn't age backwards. First, they aged all their years, to their final anniversary on birth, then all their final full months, to their final 'monthiversary"; then their final days. A person born 29 February 1896 turned 1 year old on 1 March 1897, 4 years old on 1 March 1900, and 104 years old on 29 February 2000. A person who turned 4 years, 0 months, 0 days on 1 March 1900 was born EITHER on 29 February OR 1 March 1896; many more ambiguous ages exist due to 28, 29, 30 and 31 -day months. Tom In a message dated 28-Feb-02 20:55:33 Greenwich Standard Time, Cpzb4@aol.com writes: > Subj: [VASTAFFO-L] Birth Calculator > Date: 28-Feb-02 20:55:33 Greenwich Standard Time > From: Cpzb4@aol.com > Reply-to: VASTAFFO-L@rootsweb.com > To: VASTAFFO-L@rootsweb.com > > I found this on http://olivetreegenealogy.com website. > > How do you figure a birthdate? Suppose the person died May 06, 1889, at the > age of 71 years, 7 months, 9 days. > Write the year, month, day as: 18890506 (1889, May, 06) > Subtract the age at death: 710709 (71 yrs, 7 mos, 09 days) > This gives the figure: 18179797 > Now subtract 8870: 8870 > The result is: 18170927 (1817/09/27 > > > 1817 September 27) > >