Confirmation question to determine birth date
After receiving a death translation (see below) for Anna Catharina Seip married to Vitzler,(marriage gave father as Christopher Seip) I have searched hours and found no birth record though I found several siblings with same father. Started searching other family names when I found this confirmation record. There are dates on only these few on the record. No birth records were found for this year 1679. Are not these dates indicating a birth? Would this be her date of birth (as 1743-1679 = age of her death)????? LOL I was never good at work problems.
On the 27th of January 1743, Anna Catharina, wife of Johan Diederich Vitzler from Edingen, died and was buried on the 29th of the same month, age 64 years, 1 month, and several days
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Hi Trish,
I'm still waiting for your images to come up. But let's discuss calculating Anna Catharina Seip's birth date.
She dies on 27 January 1743. Her age at death: 64 years, 1 month, several days.
Let's say (for the sake of this discussion) that "several" days is less than a week, so let's choose 6 days. Taking 6 days away from her date of death now gives us: 21 January 1743.
Now let's take the 1 month away from 21 January 1743: That pushes the date back to 21 December 1742. Based on her age at death, Anna Catharina turned 64 sometime in December 1742.
Subtracting 64 years from December 1742 gives you December 1678.
So Anna Catharina Seip's calculated birth date based on her age at death in late January 1743 is: December 1678.
We can't get more specific than month and year because we are unable to specifically say what "several days" actually means.
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Doesn't the time/month go forward and not back in this one??? Forward a month from Jan is February plus several days goes into March??
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No, you subtract her age from her death date -- you don't go forward.
Based on the confirmation record, I would agree with you that "3/3/1679" is her birth date. So if you feel that this is the correct person, then you can use this birth date. However, based on her age at death, she would have been born in December 1678. So perhaps the scribe got her age at death wrong in her death record.
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