Woodward County Obits E Surnames

Computing birth date from monument transcriptions

INSTRUCTIONS

Jan

1. Find the DAY of death in the left column. Treating this day as 0,

Feb

the day before as 1, the day before that as 2, etc., count up the

Mar

column the number days of life given. If you reach the top of the

Apr

column before you have finished counting, continue at the bottom

May

of the column. If the month preceding that of death has less than

Jun

31 days, be sure to skip the unneeded days in the column. You now

Jul

have the date of birth.

Aug

2. Find the MONTH of death in the lower month column at right: If

Sep

you went past the 1st while counting days, go back one month.

Oct

Just like with days, count this month as 0 & count up the column

Nov

the number of months of life. This gives you the month of birth.

Dec

3. Take the YEAR of death. If you went past January while counting

Jan

months, subtract 1 from the year of death. Now subtract the

Feb

(29)

number of years of life from the year you have to get the year

Mar

(30)

of birth.

Apr

(31)

Leap years Any year evenly divisible by 4, except the century

May

years, unless they are divisible by 400 (1600 is a leap year)

Jun

remember that when you count back the days, you skip only 31 & 30

Jul

instead of 31, 30 & 29, to correct the number of days in the month

Aug

Remember the rule: Thirty days hath Sept., April, June, & Nov.

Sep

EXAMPLE

Oct

Subject died 1 March 1896, aged 35 years, 7 months, 2 days.

Nov

1. Starting with 1, treat this day as 0 & count back 2. The month

Dec

preceding March is February & this was a leap year; so we skip

the 30 & 31. The day before March 1 was February 29. Treat the

29th as 1, etc. This lands us on 28.

2/We did go past the 1st, so starting with February in the month

column, count up 7 months. This takes us to July.

3/We did go past January, so 1896 becomes 1895. Subtracting 35 from

1895 gives us 1860. Therefore the subject was born 28 July 1860

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