Hi Ginny and All,   Thanks for the info.  I wanted to make sure that I had to add two months to the date so that 4 10 1661 would become 4 October 1661 but that 4 November 1661 was really part of 1662.  I am also thinking of writing the dates 4  11 1661 and 4 12 1661 as 4 November 1661/2 and 4 December 1661/2  I think I have seen this done as well.   I think that would also be appropriate and correct too.    Question:  What year was this date issue fixed (by the Gregorian Calendar??)?    Thanks for your help, Charlie King     Hi Charlie, A simple answer would probably be that (for example) the date 4 10 1661 means the fourth of the 10th month, but one has to keep in mind that the year didn't start in January, but in March which would be the first month. October would be the 8th month. A good clue for me is that the term "oct" means 8, November is the 9th month, December the 10th. Of course some months aren't so easily identified, but enough do, so one can figure out the rest. A different calendar system was used in the British colonies up to about 1762. You might want to read up on how this affected how our early ancestors reckoned their dates. The early colonists still used the Julian calendar, and we currently use the Gregorian calendar. Ginny

My personal opinion is to leave the dates as you find them. The only months that use the double year date is Jan., Feb., Mar. and only up until 1752 when we started using the new Calender. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie King" <king133j@yahoo.com> To: <nhrockin@rootsweb.com> Cc: <king133@juno.com> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [NHROCKIN] NHROCKIN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11 Hi Ginny and All, Thanks for the info. I wanted to make sure that I had to add two months to the date so that 4 10 1661 would become 4 October 1661 but that 4 November 1661 was really part of 1662. I am also thinking of writing the dates 4 11 1661 and 4 12 1661 as 4 November 1661/2 and 4 December 1661/2 I think I have seen this done as well. I think that would also be appropriate and correct too. Question: What year was this date issue fixed (by the Gregorian Calendar??)? Thanks for your help, Charlie King Hi Charlie, A simple answer would probably be that (for example) the date 4 10 1661 means the fourth of the 10th month, but one has to keep in mind that the year didn't start in January, but in March which would be the first month. October would be the 8th month. A good clue for me is that the term "oct" means 8, November is the 9th month, December the 10th. Of course some months aren't so easily identified, but enough do, so one can figure out the rest. A different calendar system was used in the British colonies up to about 1762. You might want to read up on how this affected how our early ancestors reckoned their dates. The early colonists still used the Julian calendar, and we currently use the Gregorian calendar. Ginny _______________________________________________ RootsWeb NHROCKIN Mailing List http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/NH/rockingham.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NHROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message