WATCH YOUR DATES!!!
Checking and double checking if you have the right dates is pretty much second nature in this hobby, so why am I mentioning this?
Not everybody writes the dates the same! I found this out the hard way, even while VERY aware that the Dutch dates are backwards from the American ones. I KNOW that 09-05-1961 means May 9, 1961 in most parts of Europe and September 5, 1961 in the US, and STILL, I sent my cousing a birthday card in September, while his birthday was in May...... SO if you have dates spanning more countries, use the month spelled out, just to make it so you don't second guess 600 dates of birth and 486 death dates down the road (I'm double checking every last one of them!! because a) I altered some, that I caught, without second guessing the ones around them and b) I just don't remember/know which ones are in which date format and even if I switch to full spelled out month, the effect is the same, although the ones with a date over 12 will cause a serious headache for the programm......)
Also, before you enter any dates into your research in any form, do yourself a favor and find a date over 12 and see where in their records that number goes..... I guess the best way to make sure you have the actual, "good" date is a vital record, because the countries I have needed them from always have the full date spelled out as "the ninth day of May in the year onethousandninehundredandsixtyone" or nineteenhundredandsixtyone.... and with AI taking over, this may be the way we have to start spelling out dates again, but that's another thought that doesn't quite belong here. LOL!!
April 6, 2025
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