that I’m proofreading these genealogy pages. Not only have I found several people who, according to the converter, were born in the first century A. D. (it didn’t handle dates where I don’t have an exact birth year, like “197_”), I’m having to clean up some information that accidentally got in because the genealogy database will output event dates for the living half of a couple when the spouse is dead. (Publicly disclosing information about living people is a VERY big offense among genealogists; some say that even disclosing the names of living people is going too far.) And then there’s the problem of the converter failing to format dates using the Julian calendar (the calendar used in England and its colonies until 1752), and Unicode characters that didn’t get converted from Win-1252, so browsers choke on displaying it. All that has to be looked for and fixed, one entry at a time.
305 pages done, 486 to go.
* The expanded form of the British swear-word “bloody.” And now you know why it’s supposed to be such a bad swear-word: it’s blasphemous.
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