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From: LOWELL BROWN <>
Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Help! Calculating Ages!
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:23:54 -0500


My appologies for the mistake in the Brithday Calculation URL; try this:

http://snws347.eas.asu.edu:8000/~buckner/bdjscr.html

LOWELL BROWN wrote:
>
> Look at this page for aneasy calculation of birth dates when you have
> the years mos and days given with the death date.
>
> http://snws347.eas.asu.edu:8000/~buckner/bdform.html
>
> Lowell
>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been working with pencil and paper, fingers and toes, and have not been
> > able to solve this puzzle. I'm hoping that someone on this mailing list has
> > already found the answer.
> >
> > How does one calculate a person's age as is often seen on old tombstones,
> > with the years, months and days? I am including two examples for which I
> > have each person's birth and death dates, but I can't come up with the same
> > result as shown on the stones. Did they include calculations for leap years?
> > February (28 days), months with 30 days, 31 days? Did they use a Julian
> > calendar?
> >
> > Understanding this method of calculation would be helpful when one has only
> > the information on a tombstone from which to calculate a person's date of
> > birth.
> >
> > Jesse Hadley died in Hancock County on Sept. 7, 1859. His stone said that
> > his age was 74 years, 11 months, 20 days. From other documented resources, I
> > believe his birthdate was Sept 13, 1784.
> >
> > Lucinda Lawrence Hadley died in Hancock County on Jan. 29, 1860, at the age,
> > also according to her stone, of 70 years, 9 months, 10 days. Her birthdate
> > was April 19, 1790.
> >
> > If someone can provide an answer or point me at a website, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > Marcia Farina
> >

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