Like the others, I do use the 4 comma separations - the majority of the time. I was taught to always enter the location as it was called AT THE TIME OF THE EVENT. I have many locations that I cannot fill the 4 sections because the location didn't adhere to that structure - it was a territory, a plantation, a hundred, a colony! Or even the parish was the record keeper of the larger area. But humans just love to set up jurisdictions and then apply laws. For a record to survive it had to be kept at some level which was located someplace. The local jurisdictional name is what needs to be identified. Everybody who lived in that locality knew that jurisdiction - it didn't have to be named on every document. That would depend on the reason for the document: Goverment record such as land or court usually, church records not so much. Then, if need be, use the wonderful, copious places called notes Legacy has built in to the program to enter an explanation regarding that location at that time. There is not a rule that you HAVE TO fill every blank spot in the location fields.
Linda in Iowa On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:43 AM mvmcgrs--- via LegacyUserGroup < legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote: > > > I hope you are not inserting the the added information if it is not in the > document. The jurisdictions change over time. In the US what was a county > in 1850 may be another county in 1860 and still another county by 1870. The > house did not move but the boundaries did. > > Marie > > Marie Varrelman Melchiori, Certified Genealogist Emeritus > ______________________________ ______________________________ __ > CG or Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for > Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified > genealogists after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is > registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. > In a message dated 8/1/2019 6:24:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, > wrlinh...@gmail.com writes: > > I do agree. > > My standard is: [1. local jurisdiction/repository i.e.township, village, > city, etc], 2.County, 3.State, 4.Country > and apply to other countries similarly by always using three commas for > all locations [usually each has a repository of genealogical data] . The > entry might between comma's might be null if I don't have the information. > For example born in USA might be ", , , USA". I know I have some research > to do but I only record what I have from that source. > > For folder hierarchy and some naming situations I reverse the order but > always hold to 4 elements for location. I don't believe I have ever had an > exception. I am sure I will learn about one here. So far this works for > me. > > Bill > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:20 AM Roberta Schwalm <robertaschw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I do the same thing, Shirley. Most of my ancestors are from Scotland, > Ireland, England, Germany and a spattering of French. The only difference > is I use "province" instead of State. > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:05 PM Shirley Crampton <scshenders...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I use Village, County, State, Country. Hopefully there is no more than 1 > village of the same name in the County. If the place is rural then I put > the name of the township in the first position. > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:47 PM Connie Laubach <bluecorab...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Trying to decide how to input the location names – I have townships that > are made up of villages and boroughs. How are others handling it? > > I have thought of the following: > > Village, township, county, state, United States > > or > > township-village, country, state, United States (I like this as all > villages within the township would be listed together) > > > > Thank you, Connie. > > > > > > > -- > > 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/ >
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