Approximated Ages

Luisa Browning says:

July 23, 2015 at 8:56 am

Hi, just an FYI –
Your forwarding link on your old blogspot site says “we are not hosted by…” I think you meant to say “We are NOW hosted…”

Thanks for all your your great tips!

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Georgeann Engel says:

July 23, 2015 at 8:58 am

I finally found my great-grandparents and my grandfather on the 1900 census because I ignored ages – theirs were 10 years off! Fortunately there were other “clues” that helped me determine that this was the correct family.

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Marsha Hosfeld says:

July 25, 2015 at 5:35 pm

I would have had a terrible time tracking my gg-grandmother if she had not remained at the same address for decades… common name and NEVER the same age given twice. I still don’t know when she was really born (1833? or 1844? or somewhere in between) or how old she actually was when she died. I have little faith in the death certificate information since she probably never even told her children her real age.

Also, be sure to look at the actual census page since there are often transcription errors.

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