[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Julian calendar

[Sigrid Pohl Perry]

Thanks, Bronwyn.

That's a very interesting site and gives complete information. I think 
the most important point for us to remember in genealogy research is 
that Russia had control of a large portion of Poland in the 19th century 
and they required vital statistics dates to be in the Julian calendar in 
1868 (though the Poles and Germans had been using the Gregorian calendar 
dates long before this). We see many records from Poland written in 
Russian that provide both dates. However, sometimes the person writing 
the date only uses the Julian date, especially in Volhynia. To be 
consistent with our Gregorian calendar customs, we should count forward 
12 days (13 days after 1900) for a date if only one is given, and put a 
note in the record about the Julian date.

It is very possible that individuals' vital records will switch back and 
forth between these dates, depending on what they were told about the 
date and if documents carried by them were written by Russian 
authorities before 1918. Please note also that in any Napoleonic 
paragraph record, the prominent date which is given at the beginning is 
the date the record is made, i.e. baptism and marriage ceremonies or the 
recording of a death. The actual birth or death are mentioned in the 
body of the paragraph and it may provide only words like "yesterday", 
"day before yesterday", etc. Someone may take the date at the beginning 
as the date of the event when providing information for another 
document. We should remember all these factors when reconciling 
discrepancies in dates.

Sigrid

On 5/8/2012 4:03 AM, Bronwyn Klimach wrote:
> Carol,
> This will give you the answer, and much more:
> http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html
> Sigrid may have some other interesting points to mention :)
> Bronwyn.
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Carol Duff<carolduff at me.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Sigrid, Does Russia still use the Julian calendar? If not, when did it
>> change?
>>
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