How much earlier? It can't be earlier than 1583/4. Drew Smith On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jim Bullock <j.b.bullock@comcast.net> wrote: > Is there a way to get RM to recognize double dates in the 17th and earlier > centuries?

Here is the explanation from the help file. "The Gregorian calendar moved the start of the year to January 1. The Gregorian calendar wasn't adopted by the British empire (including its colonies, the US and Canada) until 1752 and other countries as later as 1923. In the intervening years, dates between Jan. 1 and Mar. 24 were written as 15 Feb 1675/6 to indicate the year was 1675 on the Julian (or Old Style) calendar, but was 1676 on the Gregorian (or New Style) calendar. RootsMagic displays the year with one digit after the / for most years, except it shows 2 digits for a decade, i.e. 1679/80, or 4 digits for a century, i.e. 1699/1700. Double dates entered with years before 1583/4 are treated as unrecognized dates, while double dates entered for 25 Mar to 31 Dec after 1583 are also treated as unrecognized dates." On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Drew Smith <drewsmithtpa@gmail.com> wrote: > How much earlier? It can't be earlier than 1583/4. > > Drew Smith > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jim Bullock <j.b.bullock@comcast.net> > wrote: > > Is there a way to get RM to recognize double dates in the 17th and > earlier > > centuries? > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >