I use an excel function to tell me which day of the week corresponds to a date. If you would like it, I can email to you. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Alwin" <dfa@umich.edu> To: <ALWINE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [ALWINE] Death Dates > Hi Nancy, > Day-date calculations are fairly straightforward. I do not have a table > here in front of me, but I'm sure you can find one on the web or at just > about any library. The calendar we use has a 28-year repeat cycle (i.e. > this year's calendar is the same as the one 28 years ago etc.), so there > aren't that many possibilties. I read an really interesting book on this > topic over the Christmas holidays by Stephen Jay Gould, called Questioning > the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. > It doesn't have the tables in question, but I'm sure if you look up an > entry on the Gregorian calendar you can find what day of the week Oct. > 14, 1992 happened to fall on. Or any date for that matter. Good luck. > Duane Alwin > > On Sat, 27 May 2000 nnebiker@impop.bellatlantic.net wrote: > > > Hi Cousins, > > Have you noticed that the Harrisburg Patriot News paper did > > not give a DAY, but gave a date of publication > > example: Publication Date October 14, 1992 > > > > Now my problem is in the news article it states that a person died > > example > > on SUNDAY in Caplan Pavilion of Good Samaritan Hospital. If I had the > > Publication day with the date I could have a date for that sunday. > > > > Is there some way I can obtain a calendar of years and months like the > > old > > phone books use to print years ago?? > > > > What day was on October 14, 1992??? > > > > Thanks > > > > Nancy > > > > > > > > ==== ALWINE Mailing List ==== > > For more ALWINE info, check out the web site: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genmom > > Click on the ALWINE surname. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Duane F. Alwin Senior Research Scientist > Professor and Chair and Program Director > Department of Sociology Survey Research Center > 3030 LS&A 4067 Institute for Social Research > Phone: 734-764-5554 Phone: 734-764-6597 > Fax: 734-763-6887 Fax: 734-647-4575 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ==== ALWINE Mailing List ==== > For more ALWINE info, check out the web site: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genmom > Click on the ALWINE surname. >