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From: carol holt <>
Subject: [NJGLOUCE] GREAT ANCESTRY TIP!
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:15:28 -0500

Ancestry Tip

USING INTERNET CALENDARS

Although I was excited to receive copies of my ancestors' newspaper
obituaries, I kept running into a small obstacle: I was given the
newspaper date (the date the obituary was printed), but not the actual
date of death. The text would read: "Sylvania Walker died Saturday
afternoon at her home," or "Mrs. Bettie Warfield, age 49, died of heart
failure early Tuesday morning." Since I didn't know the day of the week
the newspaper printed the obituary, I was unable to extract an exact
date of death; consequently, I was unable to request a copy of the
certified death certificate from the Office of Vital Statistics (which
could lead to further ancestral info, such as parents' names). Then
I discovered a 10,000-year calendar on the Internet. I plug in the
newspaper date--say, 4/14/1913, a calendar is generated on-screen, and
then I can see what Tuesday date preceded the newspaper date--the actual
date of death I needed! I'm sure there are other such online calendars,
but this one works just great for me:

<http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/>;

Valerie Jordan-Jones
Jonesboro, GA


I tried it out on my own birthday since I do know what day of the week
I was born. It worked! I had a 100 year calendar on a piece of paper
that I had been using. This is even better. Be sure and bookmark or
make a favorite on your computer for future reference.

Carol Holt
Middle Tennessee

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