Art Seddon wrote
How do genealogists handle the English counties where the county lines
have been redrawn and towns have been moved from one county to another,
so that you have a record (census, birth, etc.) showing one county name
and VE don't find it because it is now in another?
I guess one way would be to use the name on the record, locate the town
and move the pin regardless of present day county lines?
That's exactly how I do it! After all, (a) it is correct to record data
exactly as one finds it and correct to use addresses and specify
locations as they were at the time of the event and (b) the actual
position of the place does not move (1), it's only arbitrary lines drawn
by people which do.
(1) Excepting, of course, some rare occasions such as where a village
spread in one direction and part of the original site was abandoned as
happened, I believe, at the time of the Black Death. (Which is why,
AIUI, some villages' churches are a little apart from the village, not
right in its heart.)
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