-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 4:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Locations/Places
I don't mean to stir up a hornet's nest, but let me ask two questions. (1) Why do our friends from the United Kingdom seem to object to entering that in the highest jurisdictional spot? If I go to the United Nations website, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is listed as a member state and not England nor Scotland. Similarly for the International Olympic Committee, the member National Organizing Committee is Great Britain. (2) Can someone do a primer on jurisdictions in the United Kingdom. I still cannot fathom which jurisdictions are used when. Thanks, Jack Jack, To answer your second question first/ The English jurisdictions for 1851 can be found on the Family Search Website at: http://maps.familysearch.org/ Now for the first one. Great Britain is a geographical entity comprising the countries of England, Wales and Scotland. It does not include Northern Ireland, it has no government and no administration and hence does not exist as a state. You will find the the IOC would not agree to our individual countries taking part in their own right, or maybe we didn't want to - I don't know. The United Kingdom is what its name suggests it is a kingdom rather than a country, the countries are its constituent parts comprising those of Great Britain plus Northern Ireland and prior to 1921 the whole of Ireland. Whilst Wales has been administratively associated with England since Norman times Ireland and Scotland. The former in 1601 after suppression of Irish rebellions and the latter in 1707 by the Act of Settlement and agreement by which Scotland retained many of the rights enjoyed by an individual state. Today, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales enjoy their own parliaments, or in the case of Wales an Assembly. The relationship of the UK to its constituent countries may be regarded in a similar way as to that between the European Union and its constituents, one does not say, for example, "France, Europe", at least not yet!. Perhaps more importantly the people regard themselves as belonging to the country in which they were born, or from which their ancestors originated and definitely not the UK. Ron Ferguson, http://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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
