Good information on that link Ian Thomas. Thank you for sharing. Cheasapeake District Governor Elect 2017-2018 Crystal Payne
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, 22:03 Ian Thomas <[email protected] wrote: > 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 > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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