[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Julian and Gregorian Dates in Lipno Records

[Paul Rakow]

    Sorry for the late reply, I was away when this question was first asked. 

    There is often a simple way to check which calendar is being used in
 church records. Banns announcing a forthcoming marriage are always read
 out on a Sunday. So if the dates of the banns are given, you can work
 out which day of the week they are in the two calendars, and the one
 that gives Sunday must be the calendar used in that church book. 

     For example, the banns for my great-great grandparents were read
 on the 13th, 20th and 27th of June, 1848. In the Gregorian calendar
 those three dates fall on a Tuesday, but in the Julian they were all
 on Sundays, so I know that this Pastor must have been writing the dates
 in the Julian system. 

      Hope this isn't too confusing, 

            Paul Rakow
            rakow at ifh.de

 LMPauling lmpauling at utech.net wrote

> I have had the following inquiry from a correspondent in Germany and I do
> not know the answer to his question. I am hoping one of you more
> knowledgable people on our list may be able to give him an answer.
>
>I did miss seeing you all at convention and hope you had a wonderful weekend!
>Linda Pauling
>
>I've noticed, that several documents of the Lutheran church records of
> Osiek nad Wisla/Osówka and Lipno (and also of Plock, Wyszogród and Sierpc)
> often show two dates during the period between 1826 and 1867, using the
> Julian and the Gregorian Calendar. But a not small number of documens
> show only one date for the named period, even though the Polish Kingdom
> was part of the Russian Empire at that time.
>
> Is it allowed to use the Gregorian calendar automatically, if only one
> date is given, like in the period befor 1815? Or must the question of 
> using one definite calendar stay unanswered, if there is no further
> spcification?
>