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 === Watch Those Dates!  ===
-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.  It's tricky and easy to make mistakes that will take you down the wrong path.
+Dates are written in Sweden 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.  This may be tricky if you are used to the date written in a different order. And it may lead to mistakes that will take you down the wrong path in your research.
-Be careful with dates. Get in the habit in all your Swedish 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 might send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Sweden 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!<br>
+Get in the habit in all your Swedish research of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. This easily fits the order the dates are written in Swedish records. Otherwise at some point you might transpose the dates. You might send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Sweden 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!<br>
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