ly Services (part of the Prison Service), Applied Net Ltd and Comax (part of Amey plc), will find the data input task of the longhand records an enormous one - in 1901 there were no computers.
Enterprise Supply Services will use the services of inmates to input the data twice (double keying method) with cross-checking software to ensure the best possible level of accuracy.
Applied Net Ltd will configure the database and create the website that will enable the data to be indexed and searched remotely, and, in view of the large numbers of genealogy researchers, the site will be sized for some 1 million visitors a day over the initial period.
Date Calculation Websites: Ever read a newspaper article and wanted to know the day it was published? Ever tried to find the day of the week a birth date fell on? Here are a few sites for perpetual calendars and for calculating birth dates and other dates:
Birthdate Form: Calculates birthdate from death date and age of death in year-month-day format at Ben Buckner's website:
Calculating Birth Year Based on Census Information at Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray's website:
Calendars from a variety of countries and time periods visit the Time and Date website at:
Search by Keywords to specify year or month/year. Try 9/1752 to see the Gregorian Reformation.
Perpetual Calendar, just change the four digit year to whatever year you want:
Virtual Perpetual Calendars can be found at:
Michael Bertrand's Java Perpetual Calendar can be found at:
10,000 year calendar:
A variety of calendar websites can also be found at Cindi's list:
About Fawne Stratford-Devai
Fawne Stratford-Devai's work on Land Records and early Ontario records is well known in the genealogy community. A published author of several Canadian and UK research books, she has also contributed articles to the Ontario Genealogical Society's newsletter "Families" as well as writing for the online family history newsletter the "Global Gazette". Biography