Jerry, Clearly we are not going to agree on the subject of place names, and I do not agree with what you say below either. Place names should be those used at the time of the event, and not only from the point of view of accuracy. Let us consider the town of Slaithwaite in Yorkshire, England, or rather it was until the boundaries changed and its location became Slaithwaite, Lancashire, England, much to the annoyance of the residents of the town - I mean what were the Wars of the Roses for if not to protect our borders?
Anyhow if one writes the location using the current county of Lancashire then it will not easily be found in the 19c censuses as it was then in Yorkshire. Not being a 100 years old, yet, I am not included in any censuses but should anyone be bothered looking for me when they are published, the will see that I was brought up in the Hamlet of Winton in Eccles, Lancashire, England. In 1974 Eccles was merged into the City of Salford, so now the location is Winton, Eccles, Salford, Lancashire, England. It doesn't look like much of a change, but actually it is, because prior to 1971 Eccles was a county borough with its own administration and police force etc. Now it is a district of Salford, not the same at all and one will certainly not find Eccles in Salford in the censuses prior to 1974. These are just a couple of examples, but the principle applies to all historic data, it will not be found if one looks in the wrong place. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jerry" <bearjerca...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 PM To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > Hi Mary. I understand what you are doing. I just don't like it > because it creates many different location names for the exact same > place. Hence, we decided to modify the location, when necessary, by > using the extra (+) note field. Just seems to me that if you want to > find every person born in Detroit (like your example and where I live, > by the way), it would be far better to have only one master name for > that location. Fort Ponchartrain won't sort anywhere near Detroit in a > long list of places either. But to each his own, as you say. > > Jerry > > On 9/29/2010 1:13 PM, brenze...@roadrunner.com wrote: >> But unless the "event" took place in the modern UK, why would you even >> consider putting it into the location field? The country such as England >> should be the last entry in the location field. So my grandmother was >> born in 1881 in: >> >> Saint Vincent Villa, Lynton, Devon, England >> >> And yes, although I am in the US and the majority of my locations are in >> the US, I have chosen to completely ignore the 4-field location format. >> This same grandmother is buried in: >> >> Elmlawn Cemetery - 3939 Delaware Avenue, Kenmore, Erie County, New >> York, USA >> >> In addition, I always record the event location as it was at the time of >> the event. I have entries for events that took place in each of the >> following locations (listed latest to oldest), although they each mean >> the same place, just at different times of history when the event took >> place: >> >> Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA >> Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Territory, USA >> Detroit, Wayne County, Indiana Territory, USA >> Detroit, Wayne County, Northwest Territory, USA >> Detroit, British North America >> Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit, New France >> >> Each of these is entered separately in my Locations master list. >> >> This works for me but let's all keep in mind that Legacy is very flexible >> in almost all aspects. What works for me might not work for you! >> >> Mary >> 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
