This may be useful to some.
I'm guessing that experienced genealogists know about tools like a day of the week calculator - useful to work out what the date was on "the first Tuesday of last month" when seen in a newspaper article from 1868, for example. And within Legacy Family Tree there are some built-in tools to that do help with age differences / date calculations, of course. There is a simple and good tool online here - http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html (This site is affiliated with Ancestry.com, I believe. ) - with links to a range of other calculators that may be useful to family history research: cousin calculator, inflation calculator, metaphone calculator, Roman numeral converter, Soundex converter, Easter date finder - and several more. I'm not sure that I would use these - but the so-called cousin calculator is very good. The formulae are briefly discussed for our modern date system (a lot of additional information is available elsewhere, online; and it is simple enough to code these calculations yourself), but this link discusses and points to a source for changeover from Julian to Gregorian calendar, for a number of different countries. Examples of how you might use the day-of-week calculator are given - 1. Use the day of the week calculator to fill in the narrative of any family history. Now you can give the day as well as the date for every event. 2. Find out the day of the week for baptisms and weddings many years ago. You may be surprised to find they did not take place on what we now consider traditional days. 3. Find out the day of the week you were born. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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