It’s About Time – Calendars and Genealogical Dates - Genealogy Bulletin 50, edited by William Dollarhide; Published Mar-Apr 1999; New back issue; 48 pp; Item # GB50; The price of this item includes postage within the United States.

This back issue of the Genealogy Bulletin features one of Dollarhide’s finest articles - a major article on genealogical double-dating, and the numerous calendars that family historians must deal with. These issues include:

• The Solar Calendar
• The Egyptian Calendar
• The Julian Calendar
• The Gregorian Calendar
• The French Republican Calendar
• Swedish Calendar Changes
• Change of the First of the Year
• 1752 Calendar Changes in British North America
• Writing Genealogical Dates
• Calculating Birth Dates From Gravestone Inscriptions
• English-Latin Names of the Months
• Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar – by Country

Another major column in this issue, still of relevance today, is Donna Potter Phillips’ article on “Genealogy, etc.” Also of interest are about 800 queries. The issue is very heavy on AGLL advertising, which is all dated…

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