Scott; I understood that British America existed until American independence and that after that the remaining empire was known as British North America. Where do you get the 1760s (presumably the Treaty of Paris (1763)) was the change in terminology?
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Hall <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 5:15 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] RE: township and cemeteries Others have answered similar to me, but I'll through my 2 cents in anyway. I follow the principle that locations should be recorded with their fficial names at the time of the event. So, for locations pre-1776, use "British North America" instead of "USA". You could get more recise and use the actual colony names, such as "Connecticut Colony", r "Province of Massachusetts Bay", or shorten it just to Connecticut" and "Massachusetts". If your ancestors lived in olonies that did not exist in 1776, I'd suggest you identify and use he actual titles, for example "Saybrook Colony" (folded into onnecticut Colony in 1644). AFAIK, the American colonies were ormally known as "British America" until the 1760s, and then "British orth America" until independence was won. Scott On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Kevin Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote: How do you use the location for pre-USA time such as 13 colonies and assachutes Bay Colony, since my trees go that far back thanks Kevin Schmitt [email protected] 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 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
