For all calculations like this I put abt, until I gete a date. Rich in LA CA
--- On Sun, 3/14/10, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> > Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering birth years into Legacy > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 1:50 AM > > > > > > > > A recent post prompts me > to comment on the > recording of an individual's year of birth. Frequently > it is calculated from an > age given in a census or death record for example, and > common practice is to > deduct the stated age from the year of the record to arrive > at the birth year. > But, is this correct? > > Let us look at the English > censuses; these are > usually taken in March, so if someone was aged 8 at the > time of the 1911 census > then there birth year would be 1911-8=1903. But consider, > the birth actually > took place between March/April 1902 and February/March > 1903, so the probability > is that the birth year was actually 1902. > > Naturally, the odds on > which year a person was > actually born will vary according to the month of > the event. All the > major websites use the simple calculation when using > the year of birth and > death, so caution. The English 1911 census also adds a > further field recording > the number of years married and, again, the probable year > of marriage would > depend on the month of the census, in this case March so > the calculation would > be as given above for births. > > It is most common in > users' databases for the > owner to have used the simple calculation when recording a > date which could, > therefore be a year out. Mind you, given the honesty of > people about their ages > a wider variation is also quite likely. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > Create your Website with > Legacy, see Tutorials > at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes > the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For > The Fergusons of N.W. England > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > ____________________________________________________ > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 > 2009: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
