Birthday duplicates in ical

just upgraded to lion and now my calendar has duplicate birthdays
i have the brithdays entered in my address book
i'm confused where to change this on the icloud or my address book or my ical???

Hi Bruce,
On the iCloud website it has a seperate setting to show/hide the birthdays calendar. This won't show in iCal but will on the website. At https://www.icloud.com/#calendar clcik on the cog icon (top right) and open Preferences to turn it on and off.
John M

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