> "Sholder, Kevin L" <KS100004@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com> wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the GenKit application from 1995 has > > been updated? > > > If so where can it be obtained? > > To my knowledge, it has not. > > I first wrote GenKit in 1988 and it was updated in the 1990s by Ray > Cox of Humble, Texas. (As computers got smarter my programming > ability disappeared! <g>. Ray and I briefly discussed updating it, > but so much of what is in GenKit is easily available online that it > didn't seem worthwhile. > > GenKit, Version 2.0, a DOS Freeware program can be download at this > site: > http://www.coxsoftware.com/genutil.htm > It was a neat little utility in its day - and I think it still has > the easiest to use utility for finding the day of week for any > specified date (he modestly said). > > One feature in GenKIt, BTW, is a list of when the changeover from > Julian to Gregorian took place in various areas. I mention that > because I just read a question asking for such information. > > "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com> Download the free calendar program DAYS from http://octhygesen.homepage.dk/EngDage.html It is the easiest use program I have seen. It has an extensive help file that will help you determine when your area changed calendars. Germany was a patchwork of independent states, cities and even a few "Freidorfs" each with their own choice of religion which was a factor in determining the date of change. Generally speaking most of the Catholic areas changed in 1582-85 and the Protestant areas in 1700. For those living near a border it must have been worse than the variations in daylight saving time we sometimes encounter. Do have a look at the calendar, I keep it on my taskbar and use if for contemporary and future dates as well. It also has the short-lived French Republic Calendar. You can type in a day name such as Septuagesima, or 3 p. trin, reminiscere or any of a multitude of others and it will give you the date on a calendar page and you can easily see what day of the week it fell on as well. Often old German records gave a day symbol which is helpful if you cannot make out the date for. Sometimes know what the day was helps you figure out a date. Celia "Celia Mitschelen" <cmitsch@ix.netcom.com>