Jon, > Have we managed to confuse you? (grin)
LOL. Well, not really. <bg> The reason for posting my question wasn't my own family research, since there are only a few links to the US in my family. OTOH I was always reading about townships, and this in particular had me puzzled (I'm also running into this with the surname board & list I admin). So primarily I wanted to better understand this concept and it's relations to other levels of land & governmental division - and also to family research. I'm still struggling sometimes with how to enter locations in Legacy correctly and in a valid way, like others do as I understood. So I wanted the concepts used for storing location names become less vague for me :-) People on this this list have done a great job in explaining this in a detailed and comprehensible way. Your description of how you use township locations in your research is a very helpful addition! Thanks. Regards Tilman ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:00 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] location, location, location > Hi, Tilman, > I'm assuming (always dangerous) that your questions arise from concerns about > source citations. Township designations are not nearly as important now as > they were years ago. However, if someone died in a rural area, i.e., not in > a city or town, then I would try to cite the township as a way of identifying > the locality. > > For example, my father, who died in 2000, is cited as having died in > "Lakewood Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota at his daughter's > home, [address listed]" HIs father, however, is cited as having died in > "City of Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota in a public hospital." > With the latter, no township is noted as Grandfather did not die in a rural > location. As a general rule, I do not cite a township unless the event > occurred in a rural location. > > My best advice (and others will disagree) would be to cite the locality in > the terms of when the event occurred with perhaps a memo noting the > contemporary political division if you consider that necessary. > > Have we managed to confuse you? (grin) > > > Jon Raymond > St. Paul Park, MN To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
