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October 2nd or 20th?
Below is an image I'm trying studying to find a marriage date. It's either the 2nd or 20th of October, 1834. I know that in some handwriting they used an ordinal indicator such as 1o to signify first, ...
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Dates in 19th century German records
Recently, I had some German (Pfalz, Bavaria) records from the ealry 1800s translated. The records contained dates that were specified in an unusual format, and I was curious to know what these were. ...
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What is a “double date”?
What is a "double date"?
Why do I sometimes see dates written as January 13, 1718/1719?
See also: How do I write the year with a double date?
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How do I write the year with a double date?
If I have a date on a birth certificate that says: "January 13, 1719", do I write the year as 1719, 1718/19, or 1719/20 (the latter two being double dates).
What if the date is April 28, 1719?
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