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| === Watch Those Dates! === | ||
<br> | Europeans write dates as day/month/year in the time period your Swedish ancestor's records were created. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820. Get in the habit in all your Swedish and other European country genealogical research, of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. If you do not do this, and are abstracting or extracting information from the records, you will at some point in time transpose the dates. You WILL send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Sweden you could find someone with your transposed date, and create a whole ancestry - just not yours.<br> | ||
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