Thank you, this does help. I have been using bef. Aft. Abt. I appreciate everyone's help on this.
Thanks! Carol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Byron Schafbuch Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] dates Hi Carol In reference to your 'dates dilemma', it would be much easier and usable to use the 'abt' notation for your dates around that time period and adding a text reference as Ron suggested. Being as such that the various calendars in use by different countries at that time would, from a programmers point of view, by a statistical nightmare of coding, depending on which calendar was being used, by what country, during what period in history, also depending historical accuracy (which always seems to change a bit now and then<g>). Here are a couple of references explaining various leap year oddities. Swedish calendar http://www.answers.com/topic/february-30 -----OR:--- 30 days in February 1712 http://hem.fyristorg.com/hok/lee/calender.htm -- Byron Schafbuch Schafbuch Family Heritage Site http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~byronsch/ >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of familyjesse >Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:52 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LegacyUG] dates > >Hello, > >I have a piece of information that is from a CD transcription >of Churchbook records and I am having these dates show up in >Legacy as errors. I can go in and change the dates but I have >this problem. many of these dates are previous to changes that >have occurred in our modern calendar. I'm wondering if Legacy >takes all of that into account or whether I need to take it >into account? These are the two records: > >30 Feb 1667 >29 Feb 1691 > >I know there is no 30 Feb in our calendar, but was there at >one time? I went on google and typed in "30 "Feb 1667" and >came up with several other genealogical events for that date. >One of them had a note that there was no such date. However I >also found: "Sweden had a February 30 in 1712". My event >occurred in the Limburg area of Netherlands. > >Even if the date was obviously an error, that is what the >original source had. If I had made an error in writing the >date, I would change it. However, I went back to the source >and the date I wrote is exactly what the source has for the date. > >Thanks, >Carol > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1037 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 1:32 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.33/1037 - Release Date: 9/29/2007 1:32 PM Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
