Until 1974 Yorkshire was divided into three sections calleed Ridings. I believe the word itself comes from the Viking language and means a 1/3 part. The three were the North Riding, West and East.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ Randy Clark wrote: > So then what are Ridings? > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Bill Bienia > <bill_bie...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >> Even a 3 or 4 level place location option per county wouldn't work. >> In Canada, Ontario and much of the rest of eastern Canada uses a 4 >> level place locations (city/town/village/township, >> county/district/municipality, province, country), while the prairie >> provinces and BC use a 3 level place location >> (city/town/village/municipal district, province, county). (I'm not >> sure how the territories are arranged.) Similar to what Ron Ferguson >> noted in his example for England, Ontario (and some other eastern >> provinces) could really be divided into 5 levels, i.e. >> city/town/village, township, county/district/municipality, province, >> country. For Canada, they would have to provide the 3 or 4 location >> option on a province by province basis. >> >> I know of one geo-database that has encoded all of Canada with the >> 3-place location (omitting counties), making it essentially useless >> for eastern Canada, or at least Ontario. In Ontario, there are >> towns, townships and counties all with the same name, or more >> commonly townships and counties with the same name, which are not >> within the same jurisdiction. As a result, if only one of the levels >> is specified, that geo-database gets it wrong most times. >> >> Bill >> Hillsburgh, Ontario, Canada >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ron Goodwin [mailto:rong1...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 7:42 PM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events >> >> Hi Ron, >> >> I would prefer an option in Legacy that would allow users to use 3 >> or 4 place locations depending on the country they are entering >> information on. >> >> I understand that you prefer and only use 3 place locations, so how >> would you handle the United States locations? I have relatives in >> Canada, England, Australia as well as the United States and well 3 >> place locations fit most countries I have some locations within >> several States within the USA where the same town name appears more >> that once within the same State and the only way to identify the >> correct location is by using the County identifier. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Ron >> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] >> Sent: March 8, 2010 18:55 >> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events >> >> Carol, >> >> It is not a "standard location format" if you are British, or of >> many, many other nationalities. We abandoned standardisation before >> it was invented, on the basis that is does not work, will not work, >> and conflicts with our freedom of expression. >> >> My location at one time was "Glossop, Derbyshire, England". The >> problem is, as you can see, there aint 4 fields, nor is there >> anywhere where I can stick a comma (not that I would, I hate them, >> except when used correctly in English). I could also go to the other >> extreme, should you so wish, where the very old (like before my >> time) location of the place where I lived was "Winton, Barton upon >> Irwell, Eccles, Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England", where >> Winton is a Hamlet, Barton upon Irwell: a Township, Eccles: >> a Parish, Hundred of Salford: the Hundred, Lancashire: the County and >> England: Country. >> >> Please bare in mind that some countries had locations nearly 2000 >> years ago, and most of ours were included in the Doomsday Book cir. >> 1086. You may care to visit my blog at http://bit.ly/8VDqTc, which >> was reprinted by World Vital Records btw. for more details. >> >> I also note that in the new transcriptions for their new database >> Family Search are now starting use use correct English locations >> (more or less). >> There's hope yet! >> >> Ron Ferguson >> _____________________________________________________ >> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
