[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] September 31 ????

[Rose Ingram]

Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the 13 days difference 
was in effect after 1900.  Prior to that most double dates in the records 
were 12 days apart.

Rose Ingram


From: "Karl Krueger" Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:03 AM

> Does anyone know if the some groups using the old Julian calendar or some 
> other time employed a September 31 day?
>
> I have translated a course of life my grandfather wrote and in being very 
> specific to some dates he also gives the days of the week. Therefore I 
> could tell the dates he was using were according to the Julian calendar - 
> 13 days off from our (Gregorian) calendar. But at one point he is quite 
> definite on specific dates and days of the week but I find he is off by 
> one day in this set of paragraphs. I wondered if by chance some people 
> used 30 days in August and 31 days in September as this would explain it, 
> however, my limited research online did not indicate such usage.
>
> Now I just translated for someone something that was handwritten back in 
> this same period as when my grandfather's story occurred. This person 
> seems to indicate a birthdate of Sep. 31, 1894. Since this is now the 
> second case in favor of a Sep 31 possibility I wonder if anyone else can 
> shed light on this - or do we have two different people making mistakes.
>
>
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