On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:23:44AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
> > On 1/2/13 3:56 PM, mxb wrote:
> > >I think if you put District, the you should change Oblast to Province.
> > 
> > You may know more than me--I took that directly from wikipedia :-)
> 
> Oblast should not be translated IMO. It's a loanword in many languages.
> Then there is Krai, which is sort of the same thing. No - best leave it
> alone.
> 
> I would however drop "a village in ", doesn't add anything useful.
> 

why the need for so much detail at all? i can see that birthday entries
are not exactly consistent, but why not just "petrovichi, russia, 1920"?

jmc

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