There is no PROPER way, but 2 schools of thought. Use the current location
name,
and put in location note the previous names. The other is to use name at the
time
of event. This means some locations may be listed 6 -10 times. In the location
notes you would put current name. Each of these will work, but are both also an
AKA
bandaid. Consistancy is the most important. For example, when I started my
British
places in the 1970's, the atlases reflected historic counties. Some recent
brands still
show the traditional and some older ones show the 'megacounties'. If I am
staying,
about half the countries in europe, before or because of EU, have consolidated
parish
level locations to larger area 'bigparishes'.
Choose to go with the location as was at time, you have multiples for the same
place.
Choose to use current, you must keep up with changes.
The third choice, (I forgot to put at top), is the LDS/IGI system where they
chose to set
a date for each region, then freeze the locations to that. Each region will
have a different
date. There is a pub by them explaining it.
Rich in LA CA
-----Original Message-----
From: "John R. Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 24, 2004 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pre 1776 Locations in US
Matt asked,
> What is the Proper way to list a location in Colonial America? If the
> location still exists today the GeoDatabase will attach ,USA to the end of
> the location. Also, many towns were located in districts, and the
> Geodatabase will say there never was a county by the name of 96th District
> (for example) in the state (which there were no states prior to 1776, they
> were colonies).
> By the way, when were they actually declared as states, since the US
> constitution dates to 1796, afte the Articles of Confederation
This question or one very similar comes up from time to time on
various genealogy lists. Between 1783 and 1796, you could say
that the "states" were in fact countries. They were bound by a
treaty known as the Articles of Confederation, but they each did
things that today we think of as perogatives of a nation, such as
print money. Before 1783 they were colonies of England,
so I suppose someone born in Boston Mass in 1778 would have
been born in the country of England.
I have people in my database with events in D�troit Qu�bec and
even in Mobile Qu�bec, (now Alabama) since at one time all that
territory was part of Qu�bec.
So to me the proper way to record an event is under the various
jurisdictions that were in effect at that time. If you feel this is
ambiguous/confusing, I'd recommend using the notes to clarify
things.
jr
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