I decided to use modern names in the Birth, Death, Event, etc. Place fields, but then I use Legacy as a database to organize knowledge, documentation, and sources, not as a software equivalent of historical reenactment. Filling such key data fields with stuff that no longer exists makes research harder, as records mostly reside in the modern versions of place. Everyone knows that counties and territories subdivided; defunct geographies, orthographies, entities, are assumed. If antequated names are relevant, I put them in any of the many fields that hold explanatory notes. One often needs to know the history of place to interpret a record, but I'd rather optimize the data to interact with modern-day life (on line databases, GIS) than recapitulating the past. Jonathan
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