At 19:34 2001-07-28 -0700, you wrote: >Yes, Yes, Yes. This could also help with your research to know what was >happening or NOT happening in a particular location at a particular time. I >REALLY want to see this implemented. Absolutely. What I first thought of, though, was the way places tend to shift over time: not only do names change (as someone else noted), but towns sometimes split or merge, county lines get redrawn, and so forth. Here in New England, an entire county once moved about 40 miles south. (Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, which used to be basically where Rockingham Co., New Hampshire is now, but is now clear the other side of Boston.) Well, to put it another way, being good Yankees, our forebears couldn't bear to waste a perfectly good county name! Cambridge, where I live, used to be much larger than it is today, encompassing many of the nearby towns. Boston, on the other hand, used to be smaller. About 120 years ago it absorbed some of its neighboring towns. So these things are fluid, and Location Notes would be very helpful in clearing up all sorts of geographical confusion. To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
