Calculating a Possible Birth Date for Jane Darragh
Image by Willfried Wende from Pixabay Trying to figure out a birth date, death date, or range of dates for an ancestor with just a piece of information or two? Perhaps you have a death date and an age on a headstone and want to calculate their birth date. Or maybe you have several censuses with differing ages and are attempting to hone in on the right one. After watching Carolyn Ladd's excellent RootsTech webinar " Which Date Is Right? Solving Birthdate Conflicts Through Genealogical Analysis ," I decided to implement some of her suggestions to tackle determining Jane Darragh's birth date. I have not yet found a birth or baptism record for Jane, so I've had to rely on other sources which give her age, which—typically—vary somewhat from document to document. I used some great date calculators on Tony Proctor's Parallax View blog . He included several in his post, "Measurement Tools ," published in 2015, with various updates since then. Perhaps ...
