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• 3 Charts for Date to Day of the Week Conversions

  From the ROOTS-L Library: Dates and Calendars.

• A History of the Western Calendar

• A Medieval English Calendar

  This is a version of the Julian calendar, as used in England, covering the 11th to 16th centuries.

• A Summary of the International Standard Date and Time Notation

  International Standard ISO 8601 specifies numeric representations of date and time. This standard notation helps to avoid confusion in international communication caused by the many different national notation.

• Brenda's Branches - Time Period Approximation Chart

  Helps you to determine time periods to search in with limited data to begin the search.

• Calendar Zone

• Calendars and Their History

• Calendars Through The Ages

  Explore the fascinating history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars.

• Calendopaedia - The Encyclopaedia of Calendars

  History & information on a variety of calendar systems.

• Chronology and Dating

• Date Finder from Solsup

  Date Finder & Date Finder Plus, new iPhone/iPad apps, will provide valuable assistance to people researching their family history. When you are researching your family history and you encounter two documents containing the name of a person you are interested in from different dates, the challenge is to determine if they refer to the same person. Date Finder allows you to enter the date and persons age from one document. You can then easily scroll to the date on the other document to see if then documents align and both refer to the same person.

• Hermetic Systems: Calendar Studies

• Historic Calendars of Europe

  A form to generate the type of calendar used for a particular year.

• History & info - the Islamic calendar

• Index of Russian Dates & Calendar Terms

  In order to find and use specific types of Russian records, resarchers need to be able to identify and understand some key terms in the Russian language. This glossary contains terms relating to dates, time and calendars in Imperial Russia, transliterated from Russian, along with their English translations. Theterms included here are those that you are likely to find in Russian genealogical sources.

• Marking Time - A History of the Months and the Meanings of their Names

• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

  Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

  • Calendar, Sunrise/Sunset, Maps

• Past Mardi Gras Dates

  New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Persian Calendar

• Printable Calendar Templates

  Printable Microsoft Word calendars in a variety of practical formats.