Mary,
You can find some discussion of this problem in the archives. Search
under "Pre Rev War" or "Location Problems".
There are undoubtedly other discussions as well.
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Here is one thread:
On 03/17/2012 03:20 PM, Michele Lewis wrote:
> How do you record your pre Rev War locations using the standard 4
place holders?
>
> michele
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*From:* Jerry <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:25 PM
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Pre Rev War
Concord, , Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America
although I usually use the note fields to explain the time-lines instead
(if I did it that way, I would use , , in place of the county name,
which did not exist at the time).
Jerry Boor - http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org
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I do something similar, but put the approximate years in parentheses,
like so:
Carmel, Dutchess, Province of New York (1664-1776)
This way, I can see at a glance whether I have the right place name for
the time frame. In the notes field, I remark on the evolution of the
place, like so:
"Carmel is now located in Putnam County, NY."
Massachusetts is always fun to deal with!
Roxanne Wolfe
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Hope this helps.
Marnie
On 6/5/2013 3:06 AM, Mary LeClerc wrote:
> Sorry I tagged onto another thread. I'm new to the usergroup and
> couldn't find how to start a new thread myself (plus it's late a
> night--that's my excuse).
> I'm not suggesting changing name locations. Just the opposite. I'm
> constantly finding people showing a U.S. city in a county that simply
> didn't exist at the given date. They've either copied from someone
> else who did the same thing, or they have changed what the original
> record showed. I want to preserve the original record and be
> historically correct at the same time.
> For awhile I solved the pre/post colonial U.S. issue by simply not
> putting any country. But I've been recently reminded that there are
> people in other countries (I'm joking here.). My software very easily
> can go in and put either "U.S.A." or "United States" after all the
> locations it recognizes as being states. But that just doesn't work
> for pre-revolution dates and I have a lot of those.
> I appreciate your comment about the four fields not working for all
> countries. I was just inputting some English records this evening and
> understand what you mean.
> Thanks.
> Mary
>
>
>
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