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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Calculating Year of Birth
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 17:23:24 -0500
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At 03:04 PM 7/1/03 -0400, Carol Hornung wrote:
>Thanks for your reply, Fran.
>
><<I normally use a circa date. In the above instance I would use circa
>1595.>>
>
>That was my thinking at first also. However, that implies a much broader
>possibility of dates than the more precise circumstance I had: based
>solely on evidence stating that he was 58 years old in 1653, there are
>only two possible years in which he could have been born. I'm having
>trouble calculating whether those two possible years are 1594/95 or
>1595/96.
>
>Guess the old brain cells just ain't what they used to be!!
>
> ~Carol

Hi, Carol:

The range of possibilities is from:

January 1594 (turned 59 in January 1653)
the record would refer to the part of January before his birthday

to:

December 1595 (turned 58 in December 1653)
the record would refer to the part of December after his birthday

You can of course make it more precise, to the day, but the principle is
the same. This determines the range, ergo the two years you were looking for.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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