John S. Adams w rote:
> How do you record events that did not occur in a city?
As I said in my note, if there is a screaming exception, then record the county. Every one of us who has rural relatives are going to run into this same thing. So I record them this way:
Benton Township - Lake County, Illinois, USA
>But, for genealogical research purposes, in most of the U.S., vital records are kept at the county level. Thus, it would seem to me that it is important to record the county for important events.
The county information is relational information: it is a function of the town (or the township and range in parts of the the US and Canada or the township and concession in other parts of Canada) and the date. All of this is fixed, known historical information. It can be placed into and looked up in a fixed table. (And as I said in my note, such a table should be an integral part of every genealogical database software program worth, so that this can be automatically looked up and printed on a research planning report, as an option).
In the absence of that, the ability to put in Notes on a location, as Rich Schulthies covers in his reply elsewhere in this thread, is probably the best interim solution. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg23096.html
Wesley Johnston
