I am currently working with birth records from this parish and have also looked at some of the marriage records. I have examined Rozyszcze baptismal records in Russian and German. I would like some clarification about the two dates being listed in the records. William Remus suggests that the two dates represent the Gregorian and Julian calendar dates, which by the 1890's should reflects about 12-13 days difference, the Russian calendar being behind, giving an earlier date.
In examining the baptismal records, I see only one date listed in the birth records for the birth, and one date listed for the baptism. These seem to be consistent with just one calendar, because often the date of baptism is only two days later than the date of birth. In some cases, the date of birth is years earlier (1875 for a baptism in 1890). I found my grandmother's birth in these records for 1896, and her date of birth is given as February 5; her date of baptism as listed February 10. Her American death certificate and wedding certificate list her date of birth as February 18. From this information, I conclude that the dates in the Rozyszcze church records for this time period are based on the Russian calendar exclusively.
Thus I am wondering if the two dates William Remus describes in the death records might be two different dates for a reason other than a calendar difference. Might one date be the actual date of death and the other date one for when the death was recorded in the book?
Karla Walters

