Calendar date formats: http://linux.about.com/od/emacs_doc/a/emacsdoc96.htm ________ Lavrentiy Krupniak -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GALICIA] Parish Register Date Entry Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:42:37 -0400 From: Laurence Krupnak <Lkrupnak@erols.com> Organization: ............... East Europe Connection ............... To: galicia@rootsweb.com References: <4A7A4736.5050008@post.harvard.edu> Tom Malek wrote: > > Have been transcribing some parish birth/baptismal information from a > FHL microfilm for Ruda, Mielec, Poland. The register entries are in > Latin and one of the entries has a notation made at a later date which > may have been the date of death. The subsequent notation is: > �23/II 1922 > My guess is that the II represents a month, but which one? Does II stand > for the second month (February)? Or is II a shorthand for VII > (September)? Or does it represent something else? > Has anyone else come across this? > Tom ********* Tom, They used Roman numerals for months ..... January = I, February = II, and so on up to December = XII. ________ Lavrentiy Krupniak