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From: Karla Nurnberg <>
Subject: [NYC] RE: AGE ON THE CENSUS
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:53:59 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,
In Genealogy classes that I have taken I was taught
the following method of determining someone's year of
birth.
1. Take the age of a person. For example, a woman
was listed on the 1900 census, as 51. Subtract that
age from 1900. The approximated birth year would be
1849.
Then, you subtract 5 years from 1849 and you add 5
years to 1849, so you search the years 1844-1854 for
that person's birth. This method works in almost all
cases with very few exceptions.
2. If you are searching for the births of children
of a couple, we were taught that you should search
about a 35 year period. This is usually the length of
time that a woman would be likely to have been having
children. Some women would begin marriage, as young as
15 and others 20 or older. Do not consider a 52 year
old lady too old to be the mother of a child, but be a
little skeptical, if she is 62. (My great-grandfather
paid someone to research our Danish lines and the
researcher had one of our ancestress' giving birth at
the age of 62. He should have questioned his
findings.)
Good luck.
Karla Nurnberg


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