Dates before 1752 in Forest of Dean Parish Transcripts (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, December 02, 2009, 11:51 (5545 days ago) @ tjbet

Thanks Trevor

There was significant debate amongst the transcribers before settling on this method of recording. If this project was funded and had significant resources, fully handling the changing style of calendar would be possible, in the meantime to support a simple cost effective index / search the following was adopted

Section 4.2

Pre 1752 parish registers with double dates

Insert in the 'Year' column the modern date using a single year (e.g.
1671)
Insert in the 'Memoranda' column the double dates (e.g. Old style
date 1671/72)

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