Yes the parish is important for finding some records but it is difficult to add to the location in a consistent manner.
It also depends on what you mean by location and whether you are entering locations purely to aid your research or for your public in reports. Mine would think I'd lost the plot if I added things like parish or registration district (see below) to the location - just as they would if I added commas for empty, because non-existent, fields.
If you are wanting to find the place on the map, the parish doesn't usually help as they're not marked on the map.
If you are dealing with small villages, they may be in the same parish so you'd have: village, parish, county, country
If you are dealing with a bigger place (and it doesn't have to be very big), there may be several parishes within it so you'd have: parish, town, county, country
Equally important for record finding with parish is the Registration District. Again this has nothing to do with finding the place on the map but is important for finding BDMs after Civil Registration and helpful in finding Census records.
I use Location Notes to add this type of information where it isn't obvious. This way it is readily accessible for research purposes, can be printed in reports for those who are interested, but doesn't clutter up the location with extraneous (and to the non genealogist sometimes misleading) stuff.
Cheers, Cathy
At 08:31 AM 4/12/2004, you wrote:
I have always understood that the Parish was one of the most important location identities around but I have not seen this mentioned as a viable location (entry)? I have used the little freeware application "Parish Locator" for a long time and many of my Britain locations include this info. A goodly number of my ancestors were buried in the Parish graveyards and I should think it would be important to include......
Tom M......
If interested in Parish Locater it can be downloaded for free, is very stable and most useful....complements the Geo. No guarantees on my part but appears to be virus free....... I have never had any sort of problem. http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLoc.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Earnshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Locations outside USA
Ron,
To define location as you do presupposes that genealogy is totally based in USA. I don't believe that many people in the UK (or other countries) would wish to insert that extra comma between town/city and county. It looks meaningless on any report produced. OK that is how the Geo database holds it, but that doesn't make it correct, just reinforces that the database is US centric.
Maybe I am breaking hallowed rules, but for UK locations I use village, town, county, country or town, county, country. Of course that means I can't easily find all locations in villages around a larger town and would welcome suggestions for improving the ability to search - but I hate adding meaningless commas!
Jack
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Taylor Sent: 02 December 2004 20:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location addresses
John,
A location is city, county, state, country. Data from your example would be "Manchester, , Lancashire, England" as found in the Geo database.
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