Hi Ann, The information on the first website looks very much like what I found on Wikipedia.... interesting. I must be missing something - I found the convertor hard to work with. It doesn't ask for the day when trying to convert FROM the French Republican Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar so the results were off. Only if I added the information in the Gregorian Calendar section first did I get correct results. However, still a good tool! I did bookmark the page. Thank you! Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ Monroe County, NY History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Staley To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Sent: 18 February, 2008 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] French Republican Calendar and how to understand the textatthe beginning of the records The 10,000 Calendar website as an article on the calendar at http://encyclopedia.calendarhome.com/cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=French_Revolutionary_Calendar They also have a converter at http://calendarhome.com/converter/ Ann S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> To: <ALSACE-LORRAINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:58 PM Subject: [A-L] French Republican Calendar and how to understand the text atthe beginning of the records Hi everyone, LONG subject! OK. I have some records that were recorded during the years of the French Republic. I have now figured out what words were for the months and how they corresponded basically to our Calendar. But I am still having confusion on when this darn calendar started! The LDS website states that the calendar began on 24 October 1793 and ended 31 December 1805, but then on two other websites (Wkipedia among them) it states that year one was 1792-1793. So question one is: HOW do I count the years - from October 1792 or 1793 or ???? And what was year one? Question 2 has to do with the text that appears to have been preprinted on the first page of the records for that one of the years I am trying to determine: "Le présent régistre, contenant _____ (unreadable handwritten word) feuillets, celui-ci et le dernier non compris, a été, par nous Président du Tribunal de première instance de l'arrondissement de Belfort coté par premier et dernier, et paraphé à chaque feuillet, polir servir àl'enrégistrement des actes de ______ (unreadable handwritten words) qui auront lieu dans la commune de Gildwiller pendant l'as XII de la Republique. Fait au Prêtoire à Belfort le _____ (unreadable handwritten words) an XI de la République française." My question: Why does it talk about the 12th year in the first part and the 11th year after that? Immediately after the part about the 11th year the first record begins. And lastly, if I have a record for year 10, what year was it? Thank you and sorry for probably asking something that has been covered previously. Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ Monroe County, NY History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ -- 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 ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com 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 ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message