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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23 482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	27 Jul 2007 21:10
	It's particularly hard for us Canadians because we're caught in between Americans and Brits, so we never know if it's day/month or month/day! Margaret
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 164 Send Message	Martin	Report	27 Jul 2007 21:01
	that's a good question, especially as us in the UK put the date before the month were-as the Americans put the month first for example 9/11 if that had been my birth date i'd put it as 11/9. So you'd think that for this reason months would be in written form to ensure no mix-up's. Martin
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1 162 Send Message	maryjane-sue	Report	27 Jul 2007 18:28
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1 162 Send Message	I always considered it a genealogy sin to abbreviate dates - ie use numbers instead of months etc. So why, when I upload my tree, which gives all dates in full, does this site convert them to all numbers?