Here is my guess: When it comes to a death certificate... The age calculation is not derived from a primary source. If his wife was the person to give the information, she was most likely not there at his birth; therefore, I would not rule out that this is your relative because the person may not have known his actual age.
Eric Gomes Castro Valley On Feb 13, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Terri <terr...@rogers.com> wrote: > My Great Great Great Grandfather Manoel Soares de Medeiros born 25 > March 1795 in Agua de Pau's records . This week i think i found his > death record 9 November 1856. What confuses me is that in the death > record it states that he died at the age of 58. But doing the > math....he should have been 61 years old. It's his wife's name on the > document too..so i think i have the right one...or could i be wrong? I > know this topic has come up before...but i have put geneology aside > for a long time and just started picking it up again so can someone > refresh my memory as to whether the documents could be off by a few > years and still be the right person? > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
