On 02/11/2014 17:21, [email protected] wrote: > England is: England, County, Town, District/Parish. But note that the > American geo-locators tell us otherwise. They are wrong. > > BTW, for a city it is England, City, District/Parish.
And then there is the added complication of what constitutes a "Parish." If you see on a Marriage Register entry that the groom or bride was a resident of "St Mark's" that will mean that the person resided within the ecclesiastical parish and there will be a Parish Church of St Mark situated in (or near) a village, town or city. On the other hand, on a Census Return you will see "Civil Parish" and this may or may not bear the same name as an Ecclesiastical Parish which may be within, or partly within, the Civil Parish. The Civil Parish may well bear the name of a village which is included in it, but many of the people enumerated will actually be resident in a different included village. My solution to this is to enter full addresses (as far as I know them) in the Location field and write whatever I am seeing, unless I KNOW differently. For example, in a Census I might see that someone lives at 1 The Street in the Civil Parish of Tranmere in the County of Cheshire. I KNOW that that road is/was actually in an area of Birkenhead adjacent to Tranmere and named Oxton, so I enter the Location as 1, The Street, Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England but in the Source Details I will put the Civil Parish as Tranmere. On the other hand, if I see the address on the Census is 1 High Street, West Piddle and I don't know whether that particular street is actually in the village of West Piddle or East Piddle then I will enter the location as !, High Street, West Piddle because that is what I am seeing. I hope that makes sense! -- Jenny M Benson 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
