thank you at least I know I am not going crazy. The date change comes up when I enter the date and says 2 year system but I forgot when I was comparing the 2 dates on paper. Duh! > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:59:41 AM Bob Bolitho via wrote: >> Carolyn, the OPC site shows the dates on the parish registers. Before >> the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, dates in January, February >> and most of March would have been at the end of the year rather than at >> the beginning as they are today. Before 1752, the new year began on 25 >> March, not 1 January. >> >> You have three options for recording January-February-March dates before >> then: >> old calendar date - 15 Jan 1720 (OPC style) >> new calendar date - 15 Jan 1721 >> both dates - 15 Jan 1720/21 >> > My software lets me record dates as Julian or Gregorian which > automatically adjusts to modern > dates. > > Note that for the U.K. the new year changed on 1 Jan 1752 while the > date jumped from 4 > September 1752 to 14 September 1752. > > There is the added complexity that some parish records insist on > recording old Julian dates for up > to 2 years after the change. > > No doubt there is a Wikipedia article explaining all this far better > than me... > > -- > ==== > Michael Lightfoot > Canberra, Australia > michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au > ==== > ------------------------------- > Listmom:  ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription > information http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >   Carolyn Haines Holt, MI 48842