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From: "Gary Rea" <>
Subject: Re: How we write the dates on our charts
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:44:08 -0600
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I have always had mixed feelings about this, myself. Being American, I am
accustomed to the MM/DD/YY format, but, when it comes to genealogy, I tende
to use both formats, as my software uses the British standard, which has
become the more widely accepted for genealogical dating. I guess, for the
sake of catering to all audiences, that should rightly be the standard. It
doesn't confuse Brits and most Americans have no trouble with it, either,
once they're accustomed to it.

Gary Rea


----- Original Message -----
From: "phall" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: How we write the dates on our charts


>I don't know about you, but for me I don't do things unless I see a clear
>cut reason.
>
> I never knew why we wrote our dates this way--- 4 Jul 1776
>
> I am always purchasing new genealogy books that might have a site that I
> haven't visited yet.
>
> This book is titled
> The Everything Online Genealogy Book and on page 25 in A Guide for
> Abbreviations it says
>
> When writing the day, month, and year on charts, place the known month
> between the date and year. In the U.S. 3/10/1943 would be March 10, 1943,
> but in Europe it would be 3 October 1943
>
> Interesting huh!
> It also says use the full names of cities, towns, counties, states, and
> foreign countries.
>
> Pat
>

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