Expressing them "as they were" should make you think to check and see if indeed the town in question was in that county or even that state at the time in question. This is one of those "brick wall" tips, at least in the US. Knowing the county and state helps you know where to look for records--especially important for amateurs (like me) to understand, imho. You don't want to say the birth record was not found, when in reality you were looking in the wrong place for it. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
________________________________ From: John Clifford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, February 5, 2012 1:13:43 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Event Locations Thanks Jenny, I understand that is where "the rules" have come from. But I think the situation has changed with the arrival of the Internet and I would guess that most people using Legacy are now "amateurs" working on their own family trees who do not particularly want to be taken seriously by experts but to do a good job for their families and descendants. <snip> 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
