Learn how to calculate a birth date of a person from their tombstone or death certificate when it only shows the person’s age and death date.
Many of the older tombstones from the 1800’s and prior often showed the person’s date of death and something like “Aged 54 Years, 5 Months, and 20 Days.” How do you calculate the date of birth when you have leap years every four years? In this episode, I have a simple solution.
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