This is what I use, I hope it helps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar -----Original Message----- From: alsace-lorraine-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 3:00 AM To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Subject: ALSACE-LORRAINE Digest, Vol 7, Issue 205 Plain digests are sent to users with all posts listed in one long email. For most subscribers, MIME digests will appear with all posts as individual attachments. The default digest delivery is Plain. If you want your digest in MIME, please write me directly: Alsace-Lorraine-admin@rootsweb.com When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. ********* Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ********* Today's Topics: 1. Re: Dates/formulas/Calendars for late 1700's and early 1800's (Scotty B.) 2. Re: Marriage in Habsheim in 1809 (Scotty B.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:22:25 -0400 From: "Scotty B." <wsb221@stny.rr.com> Subject: Re: [A-L] Dates/formulas/Calendars for late 1700's and early 1800's To: <ALSACE-LORRAINE@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BE94C3D7BE8C47B88B8A05D726BDA28F@ScottyPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, I feel so ignorant sometimes and forgive me for this. I am beginning to look for marriages, deaths etc. which happened in the early 1800?s. One of which for example is a marriage in Habsheim for March 18, 1809. In looking for this I noticed and have forgotten the ?formula? or the Calendar for this era. i.e L?an XII, and other possible words to signify a date, Florial?? or something like that. Can someone please give a rough lesson on these dates, what to look for, and when the calendar changed to a more formal one. Does this make sense? When looking for a specific date such as March 18, 1809, I have no clue what I?m looking at, or for. Thank you for helping a novice here. Scott ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:34:09 -0400 From: "Scotty B." <wsb221@stny.rr.com> Subject: Re: [A-L] Marriage in Habsheim in 1809 To: <ALSACE-LORRAINE@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <A3DF66AB38E44D8EBC5EBDADE1BB86E4@ScottyPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello, Well, in reference to my previous post I have solved part of the problem I think. I was able to find an ?index? at the end of the years 1808 and 1809 so I was able to find one of the marriages I was looking for. It is on page 171 of Habsheim, Mariages, 1793-1862 and is a marriage of Marie Caroline Kolb to Francois Jerome Brodhag which took place on 3/18/1809. I would appreciate it if someone might be able to translate whatever other information might be in this document which I can?t find such as her parents, her age, where born etc. This is a huge puzzle for me and I sincerely appreciate all the help I can get in these translations. Thank you, Scott ------------------------------ To contact the ALSACE-LORRAINE list administrator, send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ALSACE-LORRAINE mailing list, send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of ALSACE-LORRAINE Digest, Vol 7, Issue 205 ***********************************************