On 12 Apr 2016 at 20:03, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 12/04/2016 18:56, LizDennis wrote: > > I only use RD (Registration District) etc in sourcing my document, not > > sure how you could incorporate that into an "address" that's just the > > place the event was "registered". > > It is not an address, as such, but as a Location it is not much more > vague than the name of a town and is better than nothing at all if it's > the only information you have. Vital Events are (or should be) > registered in the District in which they take place, so it is quite > acceptable to say that someone was born, married or died in "XYZ > Registration District."
Where the alternative is simply to use the name of the county, then I use the registration district, as it is more precide than the country alone. Someone sent me a family tree recently where large numbers of family members were shown as born/married in "Lambeth, Surrey, England", presumably from FreeBMD. From checking them, I discovered, from censuses, that some of those were born in Brixton, so I used that instead. I used to live in Steatham, worked at Brixton London Transport garage, and drove buses between Croydon and the Embankment, so I know many of the places within the Lambeth registration district, and didn't really think of them as "Lambeth", but even "Lambeth" is more precise than "London". What I'm not sure of is when places like Brixton (or Deptford, mentioned by the OP) ceased to be thought of as part of a county and just became "Brixton, London, England. I have a similar problem with South African places, where, however, dates are more precisely known. If it was before 31 May 1910, I put "Cape Town, Cape Colony". But if I want to transfer that from Legacy to FamilySearch it wants me to use a standardised place name, and all the ones it offers are anachronistic, and sometimes just plain wrong. That's not Legacy's fault, but rather a problem with FamilySearch where someone needs to do some research with gazetteers and get the place names right. Some of the standard place names do reflect the weird obsession with using exactly four place names, like "Durban, Durban, Natal, South Africa". That reminds me of: James James Morrison Morrison Wetherby George DuPree Took very good care of his mother though he was only three. > > Someone commented that "Registration District" would not mean anything > to an American, other than a genealogist. The same can be said of lots > of "foreign country terminology". If the products of my research were > being made available to another genealogist I would expect them to be > interested enough to find out what was meant by "Registration District." > If I was relating my family history to an interested non-genealogist I would > take the trouble to explain any important aspect with which they might not be > familiar. I don't think "someone might not know about that" is a good reason > for not using correct terminology. > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
