There are two locations naming systems. 1. Name the place how it was called on the date of the event. Takes a lot of research activities to pin down each of the various places a city may have been in over time. 2. Choose a date that all locations will use as to where they are. I used to use this until in a 20 year period, the countries of Sweden, France, United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland reorganized most of their counties and parishes for equalization of populations per place (don't know if it worked). For that I changed to #1. Find an atlas printed before 1960, and compare to a current one for each of those countries. So you must first decide which method you will use 100% of the time, or use choice 3. which is a hybrid of both of them, which is currently used by Old FamilySearch. Currently FS uses different choices for different areas. For Germany it used the boundaries existing in 1870 for identifying provinces the various cities were in. I don't know what the other cut-offs are. I saw it printed out on a paper at the LDS Libray, but lost it in my files a few years ago. I hope this clears up the mud. Rich in LA CA
----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2008 4:40:06 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] German Location Names? GeoSci wrote: > Does anyone have any idea about the proper name for the location > below? I have found I have recorded at least 3 for the same place! > > Edenkoben, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany > Edenkoben, Germany > Edenkoben, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany > > As you know - Legacy likes a 4 part location (city, County, State, > Country) or equivalent. Keith, I've run into the same problem with these same areas. I too would be interested in getting them corrected. While we know that Edenkoben is the name of the town, but I've wondered if "Reinland" and "Bayern" might be our equivelent of a county, but possibly the different time periods used a different name. Counties, towns and even states have changed names before.... so I think that a possibility. What are the dates linked to each address?? Just curious about the time frames..... Do you have several entries under each spelling; are they all uniform to a specific time frame? Hopefully someone else can jump in with more complete and corrective information o this. Joseph Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
