On 2/5/2012 5:50 AM, John Clifford wrote: > Where does the "should" come from? > > I have gradually moved to using the latest version of place names because I > am producing a family tree for family members and other people who are not > expert genealogists. I want to make the tree as meaningful and easy to > understand as possible. In particular: > > 1. seeing the current name for a location gives the average user a good idea > of where the event took place, whereas using obsolete spelling, county name, > or (especially) country name will be misleading or meaningless
Akron, Michigan in 1800 = Wayne County Akron, Michigan in 1822 = Sanilac County Akron, Michigan in 1850 = Tuscola County Geneva, Oregon in 1843 = Champoeg County Geneva, Oregon in 1850 = Lyne County Geneva, Oregon in 1900 = Crook County Geneva, Oregon in 1975 = Jefferson County If Great Grandpa lived in Geneva Champoeg County Oregon in 1843, then one was to use the master location list, then looks at Geneva Oregon, it will show Jefferson as the County. What County did good ol Great Grandpa live in ? > > 2. using the Bing geo-coding tool in Legacy is unnecessarily arduous if you > use old names > > 3. when geo-codes are translated back onto a map, for instance in Google on > TNG, the user will only see modern names and may be puzzled if the event > name is different. > > 4. for fellow geeks, the old name(s) can be put in the source text/detail > and will still be documented. I guess I am a geek. I use when the event took place historically. I can't agree more with what 'Jenny Benson' wrote earlier. I would quote it, but one can certainly read it again. 7:07am. Same as Sherry. She also posted that she uses the time of the event. Have a good day, Tim Rosenlof > > Incidentally the UK Registration Districts names change successively in some > areas, like country names. I was reading recently about a place in Central > Europe that was in three different countries on the same day, in 1939 I > think. > > Having said all that an aka facility in Legacy for Location would be very > useful and I will add a request. > > John Clifford > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 03 February 2012 21:09 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event Locations > > Locations should always be entered as they were at the time of the event. > > You can add notes about changes in notes for the location in the Master > Location List or in the notes for the event Location Notes can be included > in the Location Index in a report. > > I's always interesting to read of how much a town has "moved" around. > In the US we just see county or state boundaries change around a town not > whole countries, thankfully! > > Sincerely, > Sherry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree > > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ray Rhoads<[email protected]> wrote: >> This may not be the right place to ask this question but here go's anyway. >> >> When entering a place name for an event, (birth, death etc.) that took >> place in a foreign country should you use present day locations or the >> location at the time of the event? >> >> My reason for asking is that my mothers family comes from an town in >> present day Germany. However they came to this country before there was a > Germany. >> Although the events always occurred in the same town that town at >> times was part of different Countries or Kingdoms. I have cases where >> people were born in Bavaria, married France and died in Prussia and in >> between lived in another kingdom but never left the town. >> >> Your thoughts would be appreciated >> >> Ray Rhoads 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
