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Sunday, November 7th, 2004 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manWhat do you make of this?
This is my great-great-grandmother's gravestone. (The lighting's not ideal for photographing, but I was a bit constrained: since as a Cohen I can't go into cemeteries, I had to go when I could get someone else to go in and photograph the gravestone for me.)
My question is: when did she die? I think the tombstone says 3rd December 1889 / 10 Kislev 5649. Only the Gregorian date corresponds (assuming the calendar in Emacs is correct) to 10 Kislev 5650! Yet 3 December 1888 is 29 Kislev! And in Hebrew it seems to say 5640, yet 3 December 1879 is the 18th Kislev!
Can anyone work this out, 'cause I can't. (Yes I know; if I was really enthusiastic, I'd go through the JC archives on possible dates looking for the death notice.)
This is my great-great-grandmother's gravestone. (The lighting's not ideal for photographing, but I was a bit constrained: since as a Cohen I can't go into cemeteries, I had to go when I could get someone else to go in and photograph the gravestone for me.)
My question is: when did she die? I think the tombstone says 3rd December 1889 / 10 Kislev 5649. Only the Gregorian date corresponds (assuming the calendar in Emacs is correct) to 10 Kislev 5650! Yet 3 December 1888 is 29 Kislev! And in Hebrew it seems to say 5640, yet 3 December 1879 is the 18th Kislev!
Can anyone work this out, 'cause I can't. (Yes I know; if I was really enthusiastic, I'd go through the JC archives on possible dates looking for the death notice.)
