{"id":8893,"date":"2018-09-08T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2018-09-08T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T14:51:18","slug":"did-grandpa-date-in-the-old-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/did-grandpa-date-in-the-old-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Grandpa Date in the Old Style?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17th and 18th century documents are full of dating that may appear to be &#8220;off.&#8221; This document was dated Stow, Mass., 23 January 1746: 7.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1747 in our modern style where the &#8220;new year&#8221; started on January 1. It&#8217;s 1746 in the old style where the new year started in in March. It&#8217;s not some other parenthetical notation, an abbreviation, or a stray mark or error.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8895\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/oldstyle-dating-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/oldstyle-dating-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/oldstyle-dating.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more on the calendar change on this page from the Connecticut State Libray\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.ctstatelibrary.org\/hg\/colonialresearch\/calendar\">http:\/\/libguides.ctstatelibrary.org\/hg\/colonialresearch\/calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about research, methods, and sources in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th and 18th century documents are full of dating that may appear to be &#8220;off.&#8221; This document was dated Stow, Mass., 23 January 1746: 7. It&#8217;s 1747 in our modern style where the &#8220;new year&#8221; started on January 1. It&#8217;s 1746 in the old style where the new year started in in March. It&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}