And one of the things that has always bothered me, is folks "correcting" the double dates required by the 1700's (US and England)calendar change..The date program someone mentioned here yesterday had a problem with them..From - to and Feb 29 with a double year showed as an error...:-) Regards, Fred -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross G.H. Cotton Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-5-USERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39 The only CORRECT format is one that other People (the reader) will understand what is meant. There are recommended formats. The one I use, based on 25 years of experience, is to ensure the month is shown in Characters, not numbers. This can be 12 Jan 1920, or Jan 12 1920, or 1920 Jan 12. Any worthwhile genealogy program will facilitate one of the above formats.

Fred I think you should give us an example of what you are mentioning, so we can understand your point? Ross GH Cotton, Burlington, ON, CAN 905)639-2929 Genealogy of the Cotton surname is my Enigma I haven't sent an attachment if the details are not mentioned above GOONS member responsible for tracking the family name, COTTON, #1437 Coordinator for Cotton DNA testing Project, Worldwide see http://home.comcast.net/~cottondna/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "FredV" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-5-USERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39 > And one of the things that has always bothered me, is folks "correcting" > the > double dates required by the 1700's (US and England)calendar change..The > date program someone mentioned here yesterday had a problem with > them..From > - to and Feb 29 with a double year showed as an error...:-) > > > Regards, Fred

Ok, any date in Jan-Mar in the 1700's in the US or UK should be written double, because of the Julian to Gregorian calendar change, google that if more info is needed.. Sooo... Feb 29,1750(OS)for example (And I did not look it up to see if it's a leap year or not) Would HAVE to be written Feb 29, 1750/1. With the Old style calendar (Julian) the event would happen in 1750. In the New Sytle calendar (Gregorian) it would happen in 1751, as the year formerly ended in March..So some folks find the event date in one of those years, and "correct" the date to whichever year they found..The pafdate program flagged Feb 29, 1750/1 as an error..probably because one of those years was not a leap year..And I spent a couple of moments trying to fix something that was not broken..Justa pet peave, I feel better now...:-) Regards, Fred -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross G.H. Cotton Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-5-USERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 39 Fred I think you should give us an example of what you are mentioning, so we can understand your point?