Linda You may already have this. I use this web site to convert Republican Calendar dates into Gregorian dates. It also has a little explanation of the Republican Calendar http://www.napoleon.org/en/essential_napoleon/calendar/index.asp Curt Miller -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> > 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

Hi Curt, No, I did not have that - What a clever tool! And it helped me immediately because I was beginning to think I had been given an incorrect date - Now I know for sure! 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: curtw@comcast.net To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Sent: 18 February, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [A-L] French Republican Calendar and how to understand the textat the beginning of the records Linda You may already have this. I use this web site to convert Republican Calendar dates into Gregorian dates. It also has a little explanation of the Republican Calendar http://www.napoleon.org/en/essential_napoleon/calendar/index.asp Curt Miller -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> > 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