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Subject: [ORCURRY] FWD: Determining birthdates
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:26:38 EDT

Thought this might be a useful tip!
Cassie :)
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In a message dated 8/22/1999 12:20:22 AM, writes:

<< Here is a very convenient way to determine the birth date of an ancestor
when
you have a date of death and age expressed in years, months and days.
It is the 8870 constant method.

1 Convert death date and age to numerical strings
2 Subtract age from death date
3 Subtract the constant 8870 from the balance
4. Convert the balance to a date format

John Sample died 6 May 1889 at age 71 years, 7 months and 6 days

18890506
- 710706
=======
18179800
- 8870
=======
18170930 or 30 Sep 1817

or go to this site
http://enws347.eas.asu.edu:8000/~buckner/bdform.html

Joel
>>

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