Posts in July 1, 2025

Due to a lack of vital records, I used a will from Virginia to estimate when the children of an ancestor were born. All of the details are too long for this tip, but essentially it hinged on the assumption that the children were listed from oldest to youngest in the will and the fifth child had to have been of the age of majority at the time the will was written (along with a few other assumptions). I wanted to put the estimated years of birth for these children in my genealogical database. A source needed to be included. But the will does not specifically say when any of the children are born. I’m making some assumptions about what is in the will to conclude approximately when […]