A great-grandfather's headstone said he died in 1920, but the death
certificate says 1926. I do not know who
messed up, but I believe the death certificate as being done closer to
the time of death.
Elizabeth C
John Carter wrote:
> I rarely trust ages or birth dates on tombstones unless the marker is for
> someone under age 25. Otherwise, the source of that information is often
> someone younger than the deceased. The death date is *usually* accurate
> because the person providing the information either was there or has it
> first-hand from someone who was there, but not many people know the date
> of birth of someone a couple of generations older than they are.
>
> Example: I know that my maternal grandmother lied about her age to get her
> first job because her age in two consecutive census reports is consistent
> with the date in the B-M-D pages of her family Bible but her age at
> marriage and at the next census is off by the couple of years she added in
> when she was a teenager. Had I not had the B-M-D pages, I would have
> assumed that the early census reports were wrong and the marriage license
> and later census reports were correct. Someone placing a marker 100 years
> ago may only have had word-of-mouth as a reference.
>
> In my wife's family, there are several markers that were placed by a
> wealthy relative long (20-50 years) after his ancestors died. I know from
> other research that some of the dates are wrong.
>
> Even well-intentioned people doing family research get confused. There's
> a history of my wife's family that has a father and son married to the
> same woman - the two women had similar but not identical names. The error
> may not have been obvious when (if?) someone proofread the narrative, but
> it is very obvious when you draw the tree.
>
> John
>
>
>
>> Well at least I know I'm not crazy! I use the Cal feature a lot with
>> tombstones that give age in years/months/days.
>>
>> michele
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sherry/Support
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:05 PM
>> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Calculator Question
>>
>> Ah ha! That's it! That's where I saw it before. Thanks Evert!
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Sherry
>> Technical Support
>> Legacy Family Tree
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Evert van Dijken<evandij...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If I fill the First Date with 30 Jun 2011 and then I put in 11 years, 5,
>>> months, 4 days it doesn't add Cal but if I fill the Second Date with 30
>>> jun
>>> 2011 and then I put in 11 years, 5, months, 4 days Legacy adds Cal in
>>> the
>>> First Date field
>>> Evert
>>>
>>>
>>
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