Here is an excerpt from the latest Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 49 - December 6, 1997, by Richard Eastman and Ancestry, Inc. This is a utility produced by the same person that writes the fantastic genealogy database program, Cumberland Family Tree (CFT). Copyright (C) 1997 by Richard Eastman and Ancestry, Inc. All rights reserved. The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1997 by Richard W. Eastman and Ancestry, Inc. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. ================================================================ - Universal Calendar Calculator for Windows I had a chance to use a neat little program this week. I have always been a fan of small, simple programs that do only one task but do it very well. The Universal Calendar Calculator qualifies as such a program. It can display and convert between 20 different calendars: Julian Day Number, Gregorian (New Style), Julian (Old Style), Roman-Julian, French Revolution (Original and Modified), Hebrew, Islamic, Chinese, Chinese/Gregorian, Hindu Saka, Hindu Vikrama, Hindu Kali Yuga (Solar and LuniSolar), Coptic, Ethiopic, Persian, Bahai, Mayan Long Count and Thai Suriyakati Calendar. The Universal Calendar Converter also contains: 1. Dates of holidays for the United States, Christian (Nicean Rule and Modern), Islamic, Jewish, Chinese, Hindu and Bahai. 2. Regional date of conversion from the Old Style (Julian) to the New Style (Gregorian) for more than 100 localities. 3. Over 90 Medieval European Regional Day Name Calendars. These calendars allow you to easily identify the specific Julian Calendar day of many Latin day names given in Medieval documents. The program can calculate dates between 5000 BC and 5000 AD quite comfortably. It also calculates the number of years, months and days between any two dates, even if those dates are entered in different calendars. In addition, the Universal Calendar Converter can be customized for many languages in the world, although the author says that it cannot handle Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese. Japanese, Korean or Mongolian. (That would appear to be a minor limitation for most people.) Neat program. The Universal Calendar Converter is produced by Cumberland Family Software, the same company that produces Cumberland Family Tree. It is a shareware program with a $25.00 (U.S.) registration fee. The program is available on CompuServe's Genealogy Techniques Forum at GO ROOTS as well as on the World Wide Web at http://www.cf-software.com. For more information, send an e-mail to Cumberland Family Software at 71561.2751@compuserve.com. ================================================================ If you visit the above referenced web site to read about, and perhaps down- load the Calendar program, be sure to check out the genealogy program, CFT. Everyone has his/her favorite genealogy program, but this Universal Calendar Converter is unique. There is no other such program on the market that does what this one does. For you researchers that get confused by the "old style" dates that are found in records of ancestors, in the 1700's and earlier, this utility is absolutely "necessary". SgtGeorge List Administrator ==== DURMAN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from DURMAN, send an e-mail message to: DURMAN-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)