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Calculations for headstone inscriptions (by Dale Bennett)
If you end up with a death date and and age, here's a great way to calculate the birth date:
January 3, 1815 age 75 years 5 months 12 days:
Borrow like you would in subtraction, from 1815, borrow a year/12 months so then it would be 1814. add the 12 months to the 1 month, making 13 months, borrow one month and add the 30 days and instead of 3 days you have 33 days.
1815 01 03 death date becomes:
1814 12 33 - 75 05 12 = 1739 07 21
Calendar / Clock The Calendar will accept years between 0001 and 4000. If you write a year between 1 and 99, the calendar thinks you mean 1901-1999, so if you really want to see how year 25 AD was, you will have to add a "0" before: 025 will give you year 25 AD. If you select a year between 1582 and 1918 you will have to use the right calendar system, as different countries changed to the Gregorian system at different times, so you will have to choose among catholic and non-catholic countries and Russia. There will appear some links at the bottom of the calendar where you can go to a different system. I'm not too sure about the russian standard, especially not the time of the change from Julian to Gregorian.............
Here's a link to a page for Birthdate Calculation
Birthdate Calculation based on Census Information
This site is a keeper! Print out the tables!!
Here's a link to a page on Nicknames and naming Traditions
Here's a link to a Given Name Index
Deciphering Old Handwriting A lesson on how to dechiper that "odd," old, handwriting.
1607 Jamestown, Virginia
1620 Plymouth Colony
1692 Salem Witch Trials
1706-1790 Benjamin Franklin
1732-1777 George Washington
1743-1826 Thomas Jefferson
1754-1763 French and Indian War
1769 Watts patented steam engine
1770 Boston Massacre
1776 San Francisco founded
1776 Declaration of Independence
1788-1797 Presidential Terms for George Washington
1801-1809 Presidential Terms for Thomas Jefferson
1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expeditions
1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln
1812-1815 War of 1812
1819 Bicycle patented in U.S.
1819-1825 Erie Canal
1829 First Railroad
1836 Fall of the Alamo
1837 Daguerreotype photograhy
1837 Morse Telegraph
1838 Removal of Cherokee Indians
1840-1880 Indian Wars west of the Mississippi
1846-1848 Mexican War
1849 Gold Rush
1859 Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
1860-1861 Pony Express
1861-1865 Presidential Terms for Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865 Civil War
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn
1877 First Telephone
1877 Phonograph
1885 Car patented by Karl Benz
1885-1889 First Term of President Grover Cleveland
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1893-1897 Second Term of President Grover Cleveland
1903 Wright Brothers
1908 Model T
1914-1918 World War I
1939-1945 World War II
1950-1953 Korean War
