That may be the case, but I don't use automated search very much
... though I do like the way Legacy scours the IGI so thoroughly.
It does seem that automated search wouldn't much care ... the
city/town/village name is still the first item in the field.
At 01:48 PM 03/31/07
with Locations that keep changing names
Carey
I'd enter the present-day location AND the old one ... something
like this ... (locations made up with Brigham being the current name):
Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US
Brigham (River Road), CountyName
I am trying to document a line of descent that came to Staten Island (then
a part of New Amsterdam) in the 1600's, then moved to New Harlem for 12+
years (during which the Dutch were in control, then the English, and then
the Dutch again) and then to New Jersey near what was then Bergen (now
Carey
I'd enter the present-day location AND the old one ... something
like this ... (locations made up with Brigham being the current name):
Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US
Brigham (River Road), CountyName, NJ, US
Brigham
I'm new to genealogy and Legacy, so I might be off-track here, but if
you enter non-standard forms for location, wouldn't that hinder the
internet search results both inside Leagacy and other products like
GenSmarts?
Bob Bashford wrote:
Carey
I'd enter the present-day
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