Mr. Hughes,
I do not have a handy-dandy date calculator or PAF, but may I
explain how to accurately calculate his DOB.  I am writing from
the standpoint of a retired Educational Diagnostician who has had
to calculate the exact ages of students being tested.

Death Date:
	Year		Month		Day
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	1891		4		12  Death Date
Minus   65		8		27  Age at Death
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1. Borrow 30 days (1 month) from 4 and add 30 days to 12 so that
the equation becomes:

	1891		3		42
Minus	  65		8		27
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2. Subtract 27 from 42--so that he was born on the 15th day of the
month.
3. Borrow 12 months (1 year) from 1891 and add 12 months to 3
months, so that the equation becomes:
	1890		15		42
Minus	  65		 8         27
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	1825		7		15  DOB: 15 July, 1825
To check reverse the process:

	1825		7		15	
	  65		8		27
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	1890      15 		42
Subtract 30 days from 42 and add 1 month to 15
	1890		16		12	
Subtract 12 months from 16 and add 1 year to 1891
	1891		4		12 or Date of Death was 12 April, 1891

This process makes no allowances for leap years.

Elreeta Crain Weathers
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Group,
It appears that my request for a date of birth has stirred up a
bit of a hornets nest.  Of the responses that I have received so
far, and there have been a number of them,  I am getting two very
different dates.  
The man died on 12 April 1891
His age was placed at 65 years, 8 months and 27 days.
I am getting his date of birth as 7 March 1826, and also as 
16 July 1825.      

Bill


 From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Date of Birth, Please
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 7:45 AM
> 
> Would someone in the group do me a big favor.  If you are
running PAF, would you use the handy -dandy date calculator to
come up with a date of birth on this one, please:
> 
> died:  12 April 1891
> aged: 65 yrs., 8 mos., 27 days
> 
> That's one of the only 2 things I miss about PAF.
> Thanks,
> Bill
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 

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