From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   Before 17xx, the year ran from April to March - in other words, January   
   to March were listed under the same year as the _preceding_ April to   
   December.   
      
   How do most people here record dates in those months - by modern style,   
   or by the style in use at the time in question?   
      
   Arguably, you could choose one, and for events in those three months,   
   just add a note about the situation. That's what I've done, though I   
   haven't been that consistent in which I choose. But one thing that can   
   cause (minor) problems is that if you use the then-current as your main   
   choice, any calculations (of age etc.) that your genealogy software does   
   can be out. If you choose the modern style - assigning January to March   
   the same year as the following April - they don't agree with old   
   documents.   
      
   I'd be interested to hear what others do.   
      
   (There's also the matter of when they switched from Julian to Gregorian   
   - 175x was it? - and skipped most of September to get things back in   
   line; but I think most of us just use the dates as recorded, as it'd be   
   just too difficult to do otherwise. And that was just a one-off anyway.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   One of my tricks as an armchair futurist is to "predict"  things that are   
   already happening and watch people tell me it will never happen.   
   Scott Adams, 2015-3-9   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)