I like these suggestions to use the word registration and will be changing my "district" location to "registration district" , thanks everyone. Erica
-----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011 10:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on name for 'probable' town Joan Kemp wrote: > I do the same as Ron - eg 'Woolwich Reg Dist' (Registration District)' > - not only because a child's birth can be registered anywhere, but > also because registration districts cover a wide area. I have > ancestors from Great Cressingham, which is a small village in the > Swaffham (Norfolk) registration district, so if a birth is said to > have taken place in Swaffham, it is not necessarily in the town of > Swaffham itself. Hence I would record the birth as in Swaffham Reg > Dist unless I had more specific information. > > On 04/10/2011 00:44, Ron Ferguson wrote: >> Erica, >> I do not know about Australia, but in England it has never been >> necessary to register the birth in the place where the child was born. >> For marriages and deaths it is true to say that these events are >> registered in the place of the event. Thus, a registration district >> does not necessarily include the place of birth. >> When I do use them I include the Words Registration district after >> the name eg. Barton upon Irwell registration District, Lancashire, England. >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> *From:* Erica Portelli <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, October 03, 2011 11:21 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on name for 'probable' town Like Ron, I too use "Barton upon Irwell Registration District" if that is all I know for place of B, M or D. I replace that (although it is still recorded in the Source Details, of course) when I get more precise information from another Source. Unlike Ron, I don't include the County with an RD. That is because so often the Districts cover an area which includes more than one county. Sometimes, for example, I am fairly sure a person was born in Dalbury Less in Derbyshire because the family have been living there for ages, but all I know for sure is that the birth was registered in Burton-upon-Trent. Burton upon Trent itself is in Nottinghamshire but that RD incompasses quite a few places in Derbyshire. -- Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
