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From: Bud Dorr <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: verifying a date 1665/66 or 1666/67
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:45:36 -0500


I think I do understand what happened, when and why...finally. I do have a
question: Most genealogies I run across these days often give just one date for
that time period. I wonder what that date represents? If I use that date, what
can I say about it (in TMG) in the absence of any explanation?

Bud Dorr

Lee Hoffman/KY wrote:
>
> It does -- as stated in the TMG Manual, p. 25: "There are no adjustment
> made for calendar changes within any individual country." Because of
> this, the TMG calendar may be easily used to convert to the older calendar
> in use at the time for any particular country. You must know when the
> country converted to the Gregorian calendar and what the conversion factor
> (the number of days subtracted) was. When you add that conversion factor
> back in, then you can readily see the date as it was then.
>
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