Elizabeth, I don't know where you are from but a word of caution, either could be correct! UK Certificates are copies and it would be easy to mistranscribe a "0" as a "6". This would, of course, equally apply to the stone mason, but such an error is far more likely to be picked up.
Without any further information I would enter both, one of them as an Alt Death, with details of the confliction. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Cunningham Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 2:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Date Calculator Question 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: [email protected] >> 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<[email protected]> >> 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 >>> >>> 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
