Good to know you had a good experience with your glasses! My mom had them in the past and she had a hard time getting used to them, but she did wear them for years until she had her cataracts done and no longer needed glasses. She said going down stairs was the hardest, but my eye problem makes me have poor depth perception so going downstairs is already hard. Maybe it won't be much worse!

I usually get a month's subscription to Ancestry around March every year to see what's come up since I last looked. There's a slew of New Hampshire death records this time, which helped me out a little and also confused me more. The birthday thing is weird for sure. I think that people just didn't pay that much attention back then because they didn't have to rattle it off for forms the way we do now. And if you have twelve kids, you might not remember if John was born two years ago or three years ago and if you didn't write it down in the family bible, maybe you just take your best guess. There was definitely some fudging of ages for people to get married in my family, saying they were older than the were so they could do it without parental permission. My mom's family live right on the border to the States and popped over to get married in Vermont all the time (presumably to avoid having go through the Catholic Church) and a lot of them just made themselves older, I think. They were also all French-Canadian and the transcriptions of their names by the obviously Anglophone clerks is fun to sort through. Langlois becomes Longyer, Coderre becomes Cuddy. What I can't explain is why one of the siblings in the confusing generation started going by her sister's name for awhile and returned to her own name later in life.