Converting from older versions of Kith and Kin
Using Kith and KinPro with TreeDraw
Tutorial - Using the Tree Area
Tutorial - Working with person and family data forms
Tutorial - Searching using queries
Tutorial - Adding extra fields to people and families
Tutorial - Starting your own family tree
Tutorial - Importing a GEDCOM file
Database maintenance
Changing the name of a database
Adding and maintaining user-defined fields
Data maintenance
Adding and maintaining aliases
Adding and maintaining sources
Adding and maintaining source documents
Adding and maintaining source document repositories
Re-using an old person or family code
Searching / querying
Displaying a relationship between two people
Searching for date errors / inconsistencies
Searching for events on a particular day
Searching for people who are not on the Tree Area
Screen
Selecting families using the mouse
Selecting families by relationship
Closing all open forms at once
Choosing the selection's layer
Removing families from a layer
Creating a new layer from selection
Turning the Tree Area on and off
Turning the Button Bar on and off
Turning the Status Bar on and off
Turning the Tree Area Control on and off
Printing
Printing an indented descendant tree
Printing a missing data report
Printing source document details
Printing document repository details
Previewing a report on the screen
Copying printed pages to the clipboard
Importing / exporting
Exporting data to a delimited text file
Importing a text file into notes
Exporting a text file from notes
Exporting a report to a PDF file
General
Setting current database options
Choosing a family to move to when the tree is opened
Choosing the current database language
Setting regional / language options
Selecting / defining a database name
Glossary
Kith and Kin Pro allows you to choose between several available date formats for verifying dates which you enter and to format dates for output. Normally the input and output formats chosen are the same, but it is possible to choose different formats and there are some formats designed specially for output.
Input date formats:
Format | Sample |
DD MM YYYY | 25 12 1995 |
DD MMM YYYY | 25 Dec 1995 |
MM DD YYYY | 12 25 1995 |
MMM DD YYYY | Dec 25 1995 |
YYYY MM DD | 1995 12 25 |
YYYY MMM DD | 1995 Dec 25 |
An input format definition must also include a separator. In the examples above the separator is a space but any character may be used. The separator will be used in both the first and second positions, eg. 25/12/1995 25-12-1995 25.12.1995
Set the Leading zeros option if you want day and month numbers less than 10 to have a leading zero, eg. 01-02-1995 09 Jan 1995
Output date formats:
Format | Sample |
DD MM YYYY | 25 12 1995 |
DD MMM YYYY | 25 Dec 1995 |
MM DD YYYY | 12 25 1995 |
MMM DD YYYY | Dec 25 1995 |
YYYY MM DD | 1995 12 25 |
YYYY MMM DD | 1995 Dec 25 |
DD MMMM YYYY | 25 December 1995 |
MMMM DD YYYY | December 25 1995 |
WWWW DD MMMM YYYY | Monday 25 December 1995 |
WWWW MMMM DD YYYY | Monday December 25 1995 |
MMM YYYY | December 1995 |
YYYY MMM | 1995 December |
YYYY | 1995 |
An output format definition must also include a separator. In the examples above the separator is a space but any character may be used. The separator will be used in both the first and second positions, eg. 25/12/1995 25-12-1995 25.12.1995
Set the Leading zeros option if you want day and month numbers less than 10 to have a leading zero, eg. 01-02-1995 09 Jan 1995
As you change either of the formats, Kith and Kin Pro displays sample dates in the selected format.
Overseas users who need to change the month and weekday names into their own language, can modify the entries in "Month names" and "Weekday names" lists. Month number 1 is January, 2 is February, etc. Weekday number 1 is Sunday, 2 is Monday, etc. A regional settings file which already has the correct names for your language may be available; use the Load regional settings button in Preferences.
If you want to change the strings used for date modifiers, eg. ABT = About, you can modify the settings in the Date prefixes list. ABT = About, AFT = After, BEF = Before, EST = Estimated. You must use the new strings when entering dates, not the standard strings.
Change to Gregorian calendar
What we recognise today as a calendar with twelve months and 365 days per year with leap years, dates from the year 46 BC when it was adopted by Julius Caesar and hence became known as the Julian calendar. There were some modifications made until about 4 AD so dates between 46 BC and 4 AD can be suspect. However, since the average length of the Julian year was 365.25 days and the "real" length is about 365.2423, the Julian calendar became increasingly out of step with the seasons by about 1 day every 131 years. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII decided that a new calendar would be adopted, the Gregorian calendar, which would make the length of a calendar year much closer to the real year by changing the rules for leap years. To get the calendar back into step ten days were omitted from the calendar on the day of its adoption and it was decreed that the day following Thursday 4 October 1582 would be Friday 15 October 1582. Unfortunately things are complicated by the fact that the Gregorian calendar was not adopted by every country/state on that date, in fact only by a few catholic European countries, and it took hundreds of years for the new calendar to be adopted everywhere (the Greek Orthodox Church delayed until 1924).
You can specify the date that the Gregorian calendar was adopted in your country by setting the Last Julian and First Greg dates. Weekdays are calculated by Kith and Kin Pro using the Julian calendar if the date is prior to the Last Julian date or the Gregorian calendar if after the First Greg date. Dates in between these two dates are invalid.
It is important that the correct Gregorian calendar adoption date has been set before you enter any dates into Kith and Kin Pro. If you are entering dates from different countries bear in mind that the actual date may be different.
It is possible to change the Gregorian adoption dates at any time and dates stored in the program will be correctly converted to the new calendar. For example, with the adoption date set to 1752 for the UK you can enter a person's birth of Thursday 29 Feb 1700 since this is a leap year in the Julian calendar. Now change the Gregorian adoption date to 1582 for Italy. The person's birth date is now correctly displayed as Thursday 11 March 1700 because he was now born in the Gregorian calendar. Trying to enter 29 Feb 1700 will be invalid since 1700 is no longer a leap year.
Loading a regional settings file will also change the Gregorian adoption dates.
Below is a list of countries/states and the dates that they adopted the Gregorian calendar. The dates are shown as YYYY.MM.DD. This is not intended as a complete list and has been compiled from various sources. Some countries (eg. Sweden) had strange variations in the way that they adopted the calendar for which no special dispensation is made in Kith and Kin Pro.
Country / State | Last Julian | First Gregorian |
Austria - Tyrol - Carinthia (Kärnten), Styria (Steiermark) |
1583.10.05 1583.12.14 |
1583.10.16 1583.12.25 |
Belgium - Antwerpen - Brabant, Flanders and Hainaut (Hennegau) - Liege (Lüttich) |
1582.12.20 1582.12.21 1583.03.10 |
1582.12.31 1583.03.01 1583.03.21 |
Bulgaria | 1915.10.31 | 1915.11.14 |
Canada | 1752.09.02 | 1752.09.14 |
Croatia | 1923.09.30 | 1923.10.14 |
Czech Republic | 1584.01.06 | 1584.01.17 |
Denmark - Færø Islands |
1700.02.18 1700.11.16 |
1700.03.03 1700.11.28 |
England and dominions | 1752.09.02 | 1752.09.14 |
Estonia | 1918.01.31 | 1918.02.14 |
Finland In 1753 Finland was a part of Sweden. In 1808/9 it became part of Russia which at that time still used the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar remained the official calendar in Finland but some documents use the Julian calendar. |
1753.02.17 | 1753.03.01 |
France - Lorraine (Lothringen) - Alsace (Austrian Upper Alsace) - City of Strasbourg |
1582.12.09 1582.12.09 1583.10.13 1682.02.05 |
1582.12.20 1582.12.20 1583.10.24 1682.02.16 |
Germany - Catholic regions - Augsburg - Treves (Trier) - Bavaria (Bayern) - Jülich-Berg - Cologne (Köln), Aachen - Würzburg - Mayence (Mainz) - Baden, Strasbourg (diocese only) - Münster, Cleve - Silesia (Schlesien), Lusatia (Lausitz) - Westphalia (Westfalen) - Paderborn - Pfalz-Neuburg - Hildesheim - Minden Germany - Protestant regions |
1583.03.13 1583.10.04 1583.10.05 1583.11.02 1583.11.03 1583.11.04 1583.11.11 1583.11.16 1583.11.17 1584.01.12 1584.07.01 1585.06.16 1615.12.13 1631.03.15 1668.02.01 1700.02.18 |
1583.03.24 1583.10.15 1583.10.16 1583.11.13 1583.11.14 1583.11.15 1583.11.22 1583.11.27 1583.11.28 1584.01.23 1584.07.12 1585.06.27 1615.12.24 1631.03.26 1668.02.12 1700.03.03 |
Greece - Greek Orthodox Church |
1923.03.15 1924.03.09 |
1923.03.03 1924.03.23 |
Hungary | 1584.01.22 | 1584.02.02 |
Iceland | 1700.11.16 | 1700.11.28 |
Ireland | 1752.09.02 | 1752.09.14 |
Italy - Florence and Pisa |
1582.10.04 1749.12.20 |
1582.10.15 1750.01.01 |
Latvia | 1918.02.01 | 1918.02.15 |
Lithuania - Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Uznemune (Suduva) |
1915.11.15 1584.01.10 |
1915.11.29 1584.01.21 |
Luxemburg |
1582.12.14 1583.10.04 |
1582.12.25 1583.10.15 |
The Netherlands - Catholic regions, Zeeland, Brabant - Limburg and the southern provinces (Limburg alternate) - Holland - Groningen (until summer 1594) - Gelderland, Zutphen - Utrecht, Overijssel - Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe - Drenthe |
1582.12.14 1582.12.20 1582.12.21 1583.01.01 1583.02.10 1700.06.30 1700.11.30 1700.12.31 1701.04.30 |
1582.12.25 1582.12.31 1583.01.01 1583.01.12 1583.02.21 1700.07.12 1700.12.12 1701.01.12 1701.05.12 |
Norway | 1700.02.18 | 1700.03.03 |
Poland - Prussia (Preußen) |
1582.10.04 1610.08.22 |
1582.10.15 1610.09.02 |
Portugal | 1582.10.04 | 1582.10.15 |
Romania - Transylvania |
1919.03.31 1590.12.14 |
1919.04.14 1590.12.25 |
Russia | 1918.01.31 | 1918.02.14 |
Scotland Scotland adopted part of the required change by making 1 January the start of the new year in 1600 (previously it had started on 25 March, ie. 24 March 1598 was followed by 25 March 1599), however the full change to the Gregorian calendar did not happen until 1752 with the rest of the UK. |
1752.09.02 | 1752.09.14 |
Slovakia | 1584.01.22 | 1584.02.02 |
Spain | 1582.10.04 | 1582.10.15 |
Sweden Sweden decided to make a gradual change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. By dropping Feb 29 from every leap year from 1700 to 1740 the eleven superfluous days would be omitted and from 1 Mar 1740 they would be back in sync with the Gregorian calendar. So 1700 (a Julian leap year) was not a leap year in Sweden. However, by mistake, 1704 and 1708 both contained a Feb 29 as in a normal leap year. This left Sweden out of synchronisation with both the Julian and the Gregorian world, so they decided to go back to the Julian calendar. In order to do this, they inserted an extra day in 1712 giving February 30 days. In 1753, Sweden finally changed back to the Gregorian calendar by dropping 11 days like everyone else. |
1753.02.17 | 1753.03.01 |
Switzerland - Basle (Basel) - Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn - Wallis (Valais) - Zürich, Bern, Basel, Geneva, Schafhausen, Thurgau - Neuchâtel, Mühlhausen, Biel |
1583.10.20 1584.01.11 1655.02.28 1700.12.31 1700.12.31 |
1583.10.31 1584.01.22 1655.03.11 1701.01.12 1701.01.12 |
Turkey | 1916.02.15 | 1917.03.03 |
USA - Alaska - Texas, Florida, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico - Mississippi Valley - Washington, Oregon, British Colonies |
1867.10.05 1582.10.04 1582.12.09 1752.09.02 |
1867.10.18 1582.10.15 1582.12.20 1752.09.14 |
Yugoslavia | 1919.01.14 | 1919.01.28 |
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