On 4 Dec 2000, at 12:32, Ronald Whitney wrote: > I feel that we have an obligation to consider at whom our records are > directed and should make things as easy as possible for them to understand. > To do this I try to use the current designation for the City, County, > State. Then in the notes, and or source comments I explain that at the > time of the event it was officially designated Dakota Territory or > whatever. Another point to consider in support of Ron's method is that when we do a locations sort, that the same location will show up in different positions in the sort results, unless we consistently use the current location name. If we have ancestors who lived in the same place before and after location name changes, I would like them all to show when you do a "show list". David Naylor made a very good point that you should be sure to do a right to left search. For this to be universally successful, the country always needs to be entered. Charlie
