Mary, The situation which Tony identifies is quite common in our censuses. The location hasn't changed between censuses! The answer is simple (if you're from here :-)): Hallam is a district with the city of Sheffield, as a complete aside it is the constituency represented by our current deputy Prime Minister, and it is not uncommon for different, enumerators and/or indexers to be somewhat inconsistent in they way in which they record it. There are times when boundaries do change but this is not one of them.
Thus the record with "Nether Hallam" in it may be regarded as a more specific version of the location. It is quite possible that there may be two Cundy Streets within the city of Sheffield, and including the district clarifies which one is being recorded. What I do is record exactly what is on the census for each year even if it is the same as the previous year. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: M. Brenzel Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. Tony, See below for my replies for each of your questions. Mary --How do you handle a situation where ancestors living in the same house over 3 censuses, are shown as "125 Cundy Street, Sheffield" on the first and third census, but "125 --Cundy Street, Nether Hallam" on the second one? How could the location be the same for the 1st and 3rd censuses but not the 2nd? I can see it changing over time but not likely to change and then change back. 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
