I forgot to mention something that I see now is crucial. The 1609 birth record is from St Guillaume, Strasbourg, so they were Catholic. Paul On Dé Domhnaigh, 4 Meán Fómhair, 2011, at 06:44, [email protected] wrote: > No, I do not "surely" know that Protestants and Catholics used slightly different calendars for some period of time. > > I looked at the Kalender link, but I see nothing that tells me how to solve this problem. > > Thank you for the effort. > > Paul > > On Dé Domhnaigh, 4 Meán Fómhair, 2011, at 06:16, Etienne Herrbach wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> you surely know that Protestants and Catholics used slightly >> divergents calendars for some period of time, but I do not remember >> when exacly. See the Grotefend, that I have mentionned here a while >> ago: http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm >> >> Etienne >> >> >> Le 4 sept. 11 à 14:53, Paul Carr a écrit : >> >>> I have a 1609 birth record for a Maria Weissensteiger that seems to >>> say Donnerstag 28 Sept. >>> >>> However, 28 Sept in 1609 was not on a Thursday, as far as I can tell >>> from calendars on the web. >>> >>> The record is here, if anyone wants to take a look. >>> https://public.me.com/uaine >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> best, >>> Paul >> >> >> -- >> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Paul, I would imagine, though this is merely a personal opinion, that it would be difficult in a "bi-confessional" village or town (like Strasbourg) to use two simultaneous calendars, differing in 10 days, the Julian and the Gregorian. Difficult to say more. Etienne Le 4 sept. 11 à 15:49, [email protected] a écrit : > I forgot to mention something that I see now is crucial. > > The 1609 birth record is from St Guillaume, Strasbourg, so they were > Catholic. > > Paul > > On Dé Domhnaigh, 4 Meán Fómhair, 2011, at 06:44, [email protected] > wrote: > >> No, I do not "surely" know that Protestants and Catholics used >> slightly different calendars for some period of time. >> >> I looked at the Kalender link, but I see nothing that tells me how >> to solve this problem. >> >> Thank you for the effort. >> >> Paul >> >> On Dé Domhnaigh, 4 Meán Fómhair, 2011, at 06:16, Etienne Herrbach >> wrote: >> >>> Paul, >>> >>> you surely know that Protestants and Catholics used slightly >>> divergents calendars for some period of time, but I do not remember >>> when exacly. See the Grotefend, that I have mentionned here a while >>> ago: http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm >>> >>> Etienne >>> >>> >>> Le 4 sept. 11 à 14:53, Paul Carr a écrit : >>> >>>> I have a 1609 birth record for a Maria Weissensteiger that seems to >>>> say Donnerstag 28 Sept. >>>> >>>> However, 28 Sept in 1609 was not on a Thursday, as far as I can >>>> tell >>>> from calendars on the web. >>>> >>>> The record is here, if anyone wants to take a look. >>>> https://public.me.com/uaine >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> best, >>>> Paul >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >>> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>> the body of the message >> >> >> -- >> Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine- >> L.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message