How Family Historian deals with this<\/h3>\n
Family Historian recognizes quarter dates. Either enter the year and then using the three dot icon, choose the Quarter Date tab and amend or include the quarter date in the date based field e.g. Q2 1962.<\/p>\n
The GEDCOM standard doesn’t support the Quarter format for dates and so if, for example,\u00a0Q1 1970 <\/em>is entered \u0192h<\/span><\/span> records the date within the GEDCOM file as ‘BET JAN 1970 AND MAR 1970’. This ensures that other applications that follow the GEDCOM standard are able to interpret the quarter dates correctly.<\/p>\n This also works the other way round, so that if you record a date in Family Historian as\u00a0btw Oct 1970 and Dec 1970, y<\/em>ou will see that it is displayed as: Q4 1970.<\/p>\n Those quarter date modes are governed by <\/a>Tools > Preferences<\/a> using the Use Quarter Day Display Format<\/em> option on the General<\/em> Tab.<\/p>\n Between 1582 and 1752 in the UK, dates sometimes have two years mentioned, separated by a \/ e.g. 24 March 1748\/9.<\/p>\n In short this was because, correctly, some recorders treated 25th March as the then New Year’s Day, whilst others used, as we do now ,1st January. Thus this is only relevant for dates between 1st January and 24th March.<\/p>\n You may therefore see an entry for, say, 24th March 1750, which dependent on which system the recorder was using, may mean 1749, if they were using the Julian Calendar (the year runs April to March), or 1750 if they were using the Gregorian (January to December). Another transcriber might include both systems, arriving at the 24 March 1749\/50 entry.<\/p>\n For the UK and its Dominions, then including North America, in 1752 Parliament ceased this duel system making 1st January New Year. Note that other countries to the UK differ in their dates, please see external links for more detail.<\/p>\n You should enter a ‘double date’ in the format e.g. 24 Mar 1701\/02; Family Historian will recognise it as a date. (Do not enter e.g. 24 Mar 1701\/2, as you will be prompted to save it as a Date Phrase. It will appear as “24 Mar 1701\/2” and will be useless for purposes of calculations etc. as Family Historian will not recognize it as a date.)<\/p>\n Alternatively, click on the Date Entry Assistant<\/em> Or, enter the date in the Record Window, click on the Date Entry Assistan<\/em>t Whatever way you chose, Family Historian will then recognize the date and calendar and calculate accordingly.<\/p>\n We have a more detailed article on Using the Julian and Gregorian Calendars<\/a>.<\/p>\n Historically, Quakers objected to the names of days and months in English because of their non-Christian origin.\u00a0 Instead, they referred to days and months by numbers. See Quaker Calendars & Dates<\/a> for a fuller explanation.<\/p>\n You cannot record a Quaker Date in \u0192h<\/span><\/span>; you must translate it into the more usual date format.<\/p>\n The further back you go in history in the UK, the more likely you are to find official and legal documents referring to Regnal Years, that is a year counted from the official date (year month and day) of the accession of the current Monarch. Wikipedia<\/a> has a detailed article on this, but for practical purposes, you should use Ian’s English Calendar<\/a> to convert from a Regnal Year.<\/p>\nDates with Double Years<\/h2>\n
How Family Historian deals with this<\/h3>\n
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button when you get to the Date field, and use the fields there, choosing Gregorian as the Calendar.<\/p>\n button and then use the interpreter option in the Date Phrase tab to state the date as you want it.<\/p>\nFurther Reading<\/h3>\n
Quaker Dates<\/h2>\n
How Family Historian deals with this<\/h3>\n
Regnal Years and Ecclesiastical Dates<\/h2>\n