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Genealogical Informationrelated to Kronsfeld CemeteryThis page presents information of interest to genealogy fans. Current pages include genealogical data of descendants of Jakob and Helena (nee Dueck) Warkentin, whose graves are in the Kronsfeld cemetery. In addition there are links for the descendants of Jacob and Anganetha (nee Warkentin) Knelsen. Please take note of the information item below on historical dates.If you have other genealogical information or links to submit, related to burials in the Kronsfeld Cemetery or to the family links noted here, please contact the webmaster. If you are interested to assist the project by making a contribution to sponsor a plaque for a cemetery marker, we would love to have you contact us! Please click on the content links at left to browse other information we have available. See also Other Links below... These pages are in progress. Please visit again... FAMILY PAGES
Calendar/Date DiscrepanciesFor more information on calendars and dates, see the link for articles by Peter Meyer. In researching genealogical dates one often comes up against discrepancies. One such source of date "errors" is the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Not infrequently this is the situation for our mennonite forbears who continued to use the Julian calendar long after the Gregorian calendar reform. In regards to the dates shown on these pages, in most cases it is not known whether or not immigrants converted dates on reaching the new world where the Gregorian calendar was in use, so we have chosen to simply use the dates as they were recorded. Therefore be aware that a 11-, 12-, or 13-day difference can often be accounted for by the difference between the two calendars. Sometimes the date was incorrectly converted. In some cases we know for a fact that a gravestone was recorded according to the Julian calendar (and perhaps not even the correct Julian date) because we have a civic record by the Gregorian calendar. Among the faults of the Julian calendar is that it did not properly account for leap years that coincided with century years. The difference between the Julian calendar and the solar year reached 13 days by 01 Mar 1700, 14 days by 01 Mar 1800 and 15 days after 01 Mar 1900. But to confuse the reader even more, the Gregorian reform did not actually bring the calendar in line with the true number of elapsed days per solar year. Instead of a 12 day shift, in October 1582 the calendar was adjusted by dropping 10 days with the goal of bringing Easter into line with the vernal equinox and to make the Gregorian calendar independent of the Jewish calendar. Click here for a chart of calendar days showing the day difference from year 1 as calculated by the Gregorian versus the Julian calendar method, were the Gregorian method to have been implemented from Year 1. The Gregorian calendar reform was implemented 1582 with the day following Oct 4, 1582 (that is, Oct 5 under the old calendar) becoming Oct 15, 1582. This initially went into effect in the countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland. When the Gregorian calendar was finally adopted in Britain and the British colonies, Sept. 2, 1752 was followed by Sept. 14, 1752. However, some countries and populations continued to use the Julian calendar in spite of the discrepancy. For Julian calendar users, important dates such as Easter gradually shifted farther behind in calendar position and therefore arrived ever later in the year in comparison to the actual seasons (ie. location of the earth's orbit about the sun). The difference between the Julian calendar and Gregorian calendars reached 11 days by 01 Mar 1700, 12 days by 01 Mar 1800 and 13 days after 01 Mar 1900. 2000 was a leap year under both calendar methods so the correction remains the same as in the 1900s:
It's a bit tricky when a person was born and died on "either side" of a century correction. For example, suppose a Julian date of birth is given as Dec. 13, 1872 and date of death is given as Sept. 15, 1901 by the Julian calendar. So, to correct the birthdate one must add 12 days, but to correct the date of death one must add 13 days to convert to the Gregorian calendar. Based on approximately 365 1/4 days per solar year, the Julian calendar made no allowance for century corrections, which is why it kept shifting approximately a day per century. For instance, 1900 was a leap year by the Julian calendar, but under the Gregorian calendar it was not. Because the calendar never deviated, Julian calendar users really had no need for new calendars other than changing the year and allowing for leap years. For more information on calendars and dates, see the link for articles by Peter Meyer. OTHER GENEALOGY LINKSNOTE: Please report to the webmaster any links that are no longer valid. Links found here are not necessarily an endorsement of any page content or organization, but are merely presented as possible assistance to those seeking additional information. Links to other web pages with useful genealogical information: ARCHIVES
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