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Watch Those Dates! <br>Europeans write dates in the order of day/month/year. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820, NOT the 10th of May, 1820. | Watch Those Dates! <br>Europeans write dates in the order of day/month/year. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820, NOT the 10th of May, 1820. | ||
Get in the habit in all your Norwegian 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 Norway you could possibly find someone with your transposed date even in the same parish, and take off researching a whole new line of ancestry - just not yours! | Get in the habit in all your Norwegian 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 Norway you could possibly find someone with your transposed date even in the same parish, and take off researching a whole new line of ancestry - just not yours! | ||
[[Category:Norway Research Strategies]] | [[Category:Norway Research Strategies]] | ||