On 14/12/2020 23:35, Hogrooter wrote:
Place of death: I have some relatives whose residences at death were in
a suburb of a larger city. In the last few days of life they were moved
to a hospital or hospice across the city line into the larger city. For
example. a 95 year old uncle of mine lived in Mableton, GA, a suburb of
Atlanta. Just prior to his death he was moved into a medical facility
in Atlanta where he died. Would you list the place of death as the
larger city or his permanent residence until just prior to his death?
When the place of death is some distance from the residence, I do use
the actual place of death. For example, my paternal grandmother lived
in Georgia but actually died in North Carolina while visiting a son.
How do others handle this?
Where I know it, I always use the full address in the Location field of
an Event. In the case of someone dying somewhere other than their usual
residence I enter the death address in the Death Place field and add a
Residence event which reads "On <date>, at the time of his/her death,
his her/address was ..."
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Jenny M Benson - http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/
Wrexham, UK
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