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 ====