You are correct, but I also have a picture of him taken sometime in the
early 1920's. He is buried in New Jersey.
Elizabeth C
Ron Ferguson wrote:
> 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: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> 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: 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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