On 2010/11/11 11:52, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 11/11/2010 04:47, RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: >> I don't. For some people I use England, or Illinois, or USA or a >> county, if that is the smallest location I am sure of. I put the >> 'correct' commas in, since reports can remove the extras. This way >> all my 'incompletes' end up clumped at the front of each >> country/state/county, and I rarely work on more than one area at a >> time. I feel that it is more clear to family members, than the coded >> words of, near, by or around. Personal choice.
> I'm with Rich on this one, except that I don't use the comma > placeholders. I record whatever a Source says for each event unless it > is as vague as "of Anytown." In my experience so far, this "of Anytown" > tends to be in IGI Patron Submissions or "pedigrees" given me by other > people. If I can't establish exactly what "of" means - where they were > born? where they lived as an adult? - I don't record it as a "fact" but > will make a note of it and use it as the basis for further research. I absolutely hate the 'of <placename>' usage. To me it smacks of people trying to prove a link back to mediaeval times when surnames didn't exist, and people tended to be referred to as John de Placename. Translated from Norman French, you get 'of Placename', which then gets mis-read as a location rather than the earlier recording of a name. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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
