Re: February 30th

Mardon <mgb72mgb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Not quite, but just this week I ran across a French birth record dated
>> 29 Fev in a non-leap year, which is the same problem. 
>
>I've learned to be especially cautious about French dates between 1793
and 
>1806 because of The French Revolutionary Calendar.  My 2nd great 
>grandfather was born "15 Pluviose VIII" and my 2nd great grandmother on
"4 
>Messidor IV".  Dates like this ought to always be recorded in their 
>original form.  If a French date between 1793 and 1806 showed Feb 29 in a

>non-leap year, I'd guess it was just an error in translation of the 
>calendars.

This was a couple of decades after the Revolution, 1829, to be
specific.

lojbab