>________________________________
> From: Tessa <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 5:41 PM
>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering Canadian Locations - Changing boundaries?
>
>>>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.<<
>
>Most of the sources I'm working with come from ancestry.com and many are
>census. All give some form of location. I assume, for a census, the place it
>was taken would be the location that was correct at the time. I was wondering
>if I should use, for example, Canada West for the country, or just Canada. For
>the counties, I wondered if I should use what is in the ancestry census source
>- Grey is the county that seems to have variatins - or just use Grey. I think
>the answer for the county is to enter what is on the census. Probably same for
>country, but not as sure.
>
>Another problem arises when the source isn't clear as to whether it is a
>township/town or county. The geo location code occasionally pops up with
>something helpful, but usually is no help. Googling it sometimes gives me more
>information. If I don't know whether the place is a town or county, I don't
>know what field it goes into. I hate to think of how much I'll have to learn
>when I don't have the sources spelled out as much as there are when found on
>Ancestry. I didn't check the wikipedia article in depth, but found a page with
>a simplified version to start with.
>
>>>You might also want to put that information into a timeline to assist you
>if there are marked changes.<<
>
>Is there a program that I could use to create such a timeline, or would I need
>to come up with it on my own?
>
>>>My practice is as follows:
>
>(b) Ireland - I include town or village, county, province and country
>for Ireland so
>Saint Mullins, County Carlow, Leinster, IRELAND<<
>
>I have a few sources from Ireland and some list Parish. Do you ignore
>"parish?" Do you enter it somewhere that it can be found and yet not mess up
>the consistency of the locations?
>
>I do enter the complete spelling of the province or state, but I hate to lose
>the township when available so I've been adding it after the town in
>parenthesis, and abreviating it to twp. there. When it shows up as township I
>put it in the town field and spell it out rather than abreviate. That is also
>is a bit confusing in the master location list. Sometimes Ancestry (where most
>of my data came from) uses a name that could be town or township. I don't know
>if it's because there is a town in that township, or they just are entering
>the township without noting the rest.
>
>I also have been entering the county without the word "county" after it. This
>could be a mistake also.
>To make it more difficult, in Canada, when census is divided by districts
>rather than county, or the district is there and the county noted. (I guess
>there can be more than one district in a county) then I don't know what to put
>in the county field. I could veer away from the standard four places, but that
>might get even more confusing.
>
>>> I make a note in the master location list
>edit section if I feel I need to add any specialty information.<<
>
>Where is the master location list edit section, where you make the note?
>
>Thank you for taking the time to try and help this very overwhelmed user!
>Peggy
>
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