Peggy - I don't know how others do things (I am sure we will get lots of responses) but I have a great deal of Newfoundland (pre and post confederation) as well as some British Columbia. While that is not Ontario I think the same principles apply. At the outset, I do use a four place master location and I know that many others consider this a USA driven convention.
Most important point, be sure to take a look at articles about naming locations for any of the areas you work with and learn some of the history so you know what the location was when your event took place. You have some serious issues with Ontario because of time-frames - Upper and Lower Canada, various provinces while it was part of Quebec, and the confederation issue. I would suggest if you want to follow the timing that you check out the wikipedia article (I know but it is a good start) and then the Archives of Canada for the discussion of administrative units). I did the same type of thing when I was looking into Newfoundland, Norway, Sweden and Ireland for my own database. You might also want to put that information into a timeline to assist you if there are marked changes. My practice is as follows: (a) Norway - I include the farm name in the suffix in my entries for Norwegian families (they are often known by their farm names) so Lanke, Nedre-Stjordal, Nord-Trondelag, NORWAY [however, I do use the correct special characters in my database for norwegian) (b) Ireland - I include town or village, county, province and country for Ireland so Saint Mullins, County Carlow, Leinster, IRELAND (c) Sweden - I include town or village, county, province and country for Sweden so Basterud, Eksharad, Varmlands lan, SWEDEN [again correct special characters in my database for swedish] (d) Newfoundland - For my Newfoundland (pre and post confederation) and for the other provinces of Canada I do as follows: If it is pre-1949 (confederation), my location reads: Plate Cove, Bonavista Bay, , NEWFOUNDLAND If it is post-1949 (confederation), my location reads: Plate Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador, CANADA (e) Canada - my example for British Columbia reads as follows: Vancouver City, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA (f) USA - again four conventions so Seattle, King, Washington, USA I realize that this does not work for all countries but I do make an effort to go the country's website and figure out how they break down their country codes, then I make a note in the master location list edit section if I feel I need to add any specialty information. The key is to think about what you want to do, how you want it to read, and if you and someone else will understand what you are referencing. Above all, don't abbreviate (or if you do put that in the short form) because codes change over time and you want to try to do this once and have a system in place. Just my thoughts. Best of luck! On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been confused because some records use, Canada West, or for County they > use Grey, Grey North, Grey (north/norde). I did look up the history to find > out more about where "Canada West" came from. > > My question is for those who have Ontario records to source. Do you use > Canada West for the country? Would you just use "Grey" to keep it > standardized, or would you use what the census uses, however it comes out? > > Often on the census it goes by district rather than county which could be > different. It also often gives the township. I'm wondering how Legacy users > enter these different results into their Master Location list. > > Thank you for any help! > Peggy > > > 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 -- Tessa Keough Guild No. 5089 Legacy Virtual Users Group Surnames - Keough, Murphy, Aylward, Kocevar, Lidman, Zagradisnik Places - Ireland, Newfoundland, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, USA (New York, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington) Blogs - The Keough Corner and Scandia Musings & More 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
