census', don't trust the ages. As we all have noticed the ages fluxuate, sometimes due to lies, (women and their ages...) but also the census takers seem to have filled them in (guessed or spoke to a neighbor).
Even the death records were not always correct. Using 100's of death records, I have created a chart that shows the number of people that died at each age. As you would expect lots of <1year-olds, 1 year-olds, 2 year-olds..... fewer as the age rises, very few in their 70's+ (teens faired well, too young to die in workplace accidents / childbirth but passed the childhood disease stage). what I didn't expect was to see very few 28, 29, 31, & 32 year-olds, but a considerable number of 30 year-olds (same thing for 40 and 50). Someone was guessing.
