GeoSci wrote: > I have many ancestors born in an area near Annville, PA, USA. This > area was Chester County until 1729 when it became Lancaster County - > until 1785 when it became Dauphin County - but in 1813 it became > Lebanon County and is called that today. What to use for a > County????? I have been using what it was at the time since Legacy > has complained about a County not in existence -- and I can see that > for Birth, Death and Marriage. But what about burial - people want to > know where it is NOW - not back then. > And how will NFS handle , and Annville, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, > and Annville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, and Annville, Dauphin, > Pennsylvania, USA, and Annville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA all in the > SAME database?? They are all really the same place! > Thanks > Keith
Keith, I have always believed, and still do, that one should use the location as it was at the time in question. A note can always be placed in the Burial Notes to say "now known as xxxxx". Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ 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
