Kay, I would think that the New England Historic Genealogical Society (www.americanancestors.org<http://www.americanancestors.org/>) would be able to help you in getting the correct time and place for your ancestor's locations.
Just a thought. Monique ----- Original Message ----- From: Kay Fordham<mailto:kayhawo...@earthlink.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Early Locations Hi Paula, Thanks for the response. I started out years ago recording place names as they are currently, and this led to a great deal of confusion and wild goose chases when researching - like looking for records in Maine when they were actually in MA or looking in MA when they were actually in RI. I am now in the process of changing all to what they were at the time my ancestor resided there. While Animap addresses the county issue, it does not reveal the 3rd-place location. For instance MA, CT, RI go back to 1643. Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk were original counties at the time. Okay, what was the correct nomenclature for the entire area? It was called the New England Confederation in 1643. In 1686 it was the Dominion of New England. Animap does not provide this information. What was it called when my ancestors were there in 1630? And so on. I review Wikipedia and other sites for history of various areas, and guess what -- there are many disparities among the sites as to dates of formation. I am in the process of building a list, generally from the LDS site, so that I have only one resource to go by. I am then entering the subsequent location names in the notes section of the master source location. This is a great deal of work since my mother's people were all early New Englanders or in New Amsterdam; however, I believe it will be worth the effort when completed. Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: Paula Ryburn<mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Early Locations Kay, Lots of discussion on this topic in the archives. Off the top of my head, search "old location names" or something like that. In summary (as I remember), most folks use the name of the location at the time of the date you're entering it with. Some "track" the name changes in the Location Master. May even be some Animap discussion in the archives. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kay Fordham <kayhawo...@earthlink.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thu, December 27, 2012 3:26:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Early Locations I'm struggling with locations of my New England ancestors. The first issue is a person died in 1638 in Cape Cod. This was in Plymouth Colony at the time. Should I use North America as the overall location? I have Animap; however, it is somewhat of a pain to use in my opinion. For instance, I know what county the city is in today. The problem is that it may have been in several different counties between now and the time my ancestor resided there. I need to keep clicking backward in time to see the progression, and in some instances I am back to 1643 and there is nothing earlier in Animap. The New England Confederation was founded in 1643; the Dominion of New England in 1686, the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692, etc. Is there an easier means to get from point a to point b? 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