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From: CWJOHNSON< >
Subject: TMG-L: verifying a date 1665/66 or 1666/67
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:17:37 -0500 (EST)


Reply from CWJohnson to #00.5735518 From ("Norb Bankert" <>), Tue Feb 29 at 8:14p

The book "Cradled in Sweden", which I refer to constantly in my Swedish research, has a table of Sundays and church feast days from 1650 thru 1845.
According to this, Jan 19, 1667 was a Saturday. Sweden made the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1753, not quite at the same time as Britain and the colonies, but the dates for those years earlier are right. Since Sweden started the new year in January, your date would be Jan 19, 1666/67
DO NOT use the calendar program in TMG to determine days prior to the calendar change, despite what Cliff recommends. That calendar program is based only on Gregorian dates.
Regarding Elizabeth Vandenberg's idea that the Gregorian date would to Jan 19, 1666, this cannot be. The calendar dropped 11 days when it was converted, so there is no way that the date could be same in both calendars.

Bill J.

--- Original Note #00.5735518 From ("Norb Bankert" <>), Tue Feb 29 at 8:14p ---

>I may be stretching it a little by posting this question here but I'm hoping
>to tap into the superior intelligence of this group.
>
>I have an ancestor who was born in Connecticut on January 19, either 1665/66
>or 1666/67. The later date is most oftened cited but the earlier date shows
>up enough to cast some doubt.
>As good luck would have it, documentation shows that she was born on
>SATURDAY, 19 January 65/66 or 66/67.
>Would anyone know where I might find in which one of these years January
>19'th came on a Saturday?
>
>Norb
>
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