*I don't have any NZ research to do.* However, I would definitely want
to differentiate between a region at some level and a city.
Wendy Howard wrote:
I agree with Rachel, to a point...
For places like Auckland and Wellington, two cities that are in
regions of the same name, I don't bother with the repetition and just
put "Auckland, New Zealand" and Wellington, New Zealand".
For other locations, do you want to take into consideration boundary
changes over the years? I tend not to bother, since this is such a
small country it is usually pretty easy to find a place, and use
whatever I consider to be common usage (such as Glenfield, Auckland,
New Zealand for the place where I spent the first 12 years of my life).
Once upon a time the Auckland province extended all the way down past
Taupo and Gisborne (roughly). The provinces are long gone
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_New_Zealand), but Taupo was
still in the Auckland province in 1952 (according to my copy of The
New Zealand Guide), and in 1972 it was in the "Auckland Prov. Borough
within Taupo County" (Wises New Zealand Guide, 5th edn). These days
the town of Taupo is in the Taupo District and the Waikato Region -
neither of which I would personally mention in a Legacy location.
Regardless of the date of the event being recorded, I would enter the
location as Taupo, New Zealand.
I am happy to help with NZ-specific questions via the Rootsweb New
Zealand list -
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NZL/NEW-ZEALAND.html -
where I am a regular contributor. Not privately, please. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
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