Many counties were created in America before the revolution. I created a place BNA (British North America), then in the state field use the name (colony) at the time: Virginia Colony, New Haven Colony. The counties/parishes are traced in AniMap very well. In the notes of the location of the city I put the towns creation date, if available. When I print reports for this time period, I include the place notes, and explain there what these tools actually mean. I change BNA to the LONG title using search and replace, then after printing reverse the process. No place was ever called (legally) British North America, but I didn't want to use America, because of Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and French America needed to be separate from England, and if I used England it confused which side of the pond was in question. This is a bandaid approach to a situation created before computers to hopefully make all understandable to anyone looking at it. Most people, when seeing Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America; may not agree with the usage, but can understand what was meant. Rich in LA CA
----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Walton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 10:29:33 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Some help from across the pond I was speaking of the early American colonies. If the check is turned on in Legacy, it will indicate that a particular county didn't exist at the time of the event. There were not states either, since the United States wasn't created until after the Revolutionary (on our side of the pond) War. So, in 17th and 18th century America, "city, county, state, country" doesn't apply either. There was no USA, only colonies. Makes for some rather interesting genealogies. I found one that use MC for either the state or country. I finally figured out they were talking about the Massachusetts [Bay] Colony. Oh well, gives us something interesting to discuss.... :) On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are referring to England, then we did have counties at that time. I > wouldn't know about America though. -- Jim Walton "...probe the past carefully and report it as it was, not as I wish it were" >From Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
