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

[Gary Warner]

Rose,

I remember trying a series of dates in the calendar converter at 
http://www.calendarhome.com/converter/  and as I recall, the change in days 
was not exactly at the century mark, and even varied a little bit from 
century to century in the change in number of days.  It would be nice if 
someone had the time to use the calendar converter to document what year 
the changes were effective from the 1500s through 1917, when I think the 
Russians finally stopped using the Julian calendar.

Gary Warner
Gig Harbor, WA

Gary



At 11:48 AM 1/20/2005, Rose Ingram wrote:
>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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