So far, Rennie, your solution is closest to what I envisioned - just type in the year and that year's calendar pops up. I've created a shortcut on my desktop to access it. David Youse Effectus bonus addo bonus On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:48 AM, R L Brown <wiseguy_wv@yahoo.com> wrote: > It's interesting to see how everyone has approached dealing with this, but it does illustrate the need for such a utility in some form. For what it's worth, I just click on my bookmarks and go to this simple but highly customizable website: > > > http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/ > > Rennie Brown > West Union, WV > > From: Malcolm Webb <mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> > To: bk@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 6:35 AM > Subject: Re: [BK] day of the week calculator > > > > I have used a simple calendar for years -- no frills, nothing fancy, just a > calendar And it's FREE and installed on your computer. Get it from here:- > > http://kingstairs.com/products/calendar/ > > It takes several clicks to go back say 200 years but I have found it more > than adequate for my needs. I have it linked directly into a couple of > databases on my computer so I can launch it at the click of a button from > within the database, but I also have a link on my desktop and on my MS > Office task bar so launching it from anywhere when I need it is no problem. > > All the best, > > Malcolm Webb > mfwebb2005@btinternet.com <mailto:mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf > Of Jim Dell > Sent: 05 June 2012 11:21 > To: bk@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BK] day of the week calculator > > > I use Perpetual Calendar that use to be available here > http://web.archive.org/web/20080906102411/http://www.wiskit.com/calendar.htm > l > > But I have the Java source code so I execute it locally. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of > David Youse > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 1:15 AM > To: bk@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BK] day of the week calculator > > John > > It often happens that a reference will describe an occurrence that happened > on a certain date, followed by another reference to a day of the week, e.g., > "John Doe died Jan 1, 2000 and will be buried on Thursday." While this is > informative, without knowing what day of the week Jan 1, 2000 was, or what > date "Thursday" was, the only way to record this information on the Edit > Page is to refer to a calendar for 2000 to get Thursday's calendar date. > > It would be helpful if you had a routine built into the program that would > make these calculations. This site - > http://www.calculatorpro.com/day-of-the-week-calculator - has a calculator > that can be added free to a program that would be helpful in making these > calculations. > > David Youse > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message