From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 14 16:19:13 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1ENJDjb012462; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:19:13 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1ENJDPs002205 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:19:13 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1EKoMFI016344 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:50:22 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1EKoMr8016343 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:50:22 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1EKTuFI016216 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:29:56 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1EMwaRq024247 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:58:36 -0700 X-Envelope-From: listpig@earthlink.net Tue Feb 14 15:58:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1EMwajb024238 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:58:36 -0700 Received: from smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.68]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1EMwZjx023585 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:58:35 -0700 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=Cv+EEid2s+P70SHMdmCyS+IAvFJn+lyUrciXkPhQpbgbhnGqVmzkQVi00OkO/Sj9; h=Received:User-Agent:Date:Subject:From:To:Message-ID:Thread-Topic:Thread-Index:In-Reply-To:Mime-version:Content-type:Content-transfer-encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [24.14.194.54] (helo=[192.168.1.100]) by smtpauth08.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F997v-0008Hc-62 for ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:58:31 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:58:29 -0600 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Citing non-existent places From: Listpig To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] Citing non-existent places Thread-Index: AcYxuit+agnTUZ2tEdqnOQANk0pHdA== In-Reply-To: <20060214223744.91002.qmail@web81612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: db202341c41578ced780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcc34a1d9a51a8fd6f06fc5dfde6207c9d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.14.194.54 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com And I do the reverse of what Shirley does: I put the literal "where they were born" in, and an updated description in the notes for that item. My grandmother was born in Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. That location is currently Garvin County, Oklahoma, but there was no such place when she was born. Could be my training as a historian that biases me in the direction of using "what they called it when the event actually happened." --pig Jeane added: > Another way that that takes up less space is put the name original, then in > parenthesies the now name and same way for county, I have a gr great uncle > born in St. Louis in 1870 St. Louis City was part of St. Louis County so I > put his name b and d dates. and St. Louis (Now independent city) St. Louis > County , Missouri Shirley said: > What a great opportunity to add some meat to the bare bones of research. > > I have learned to put the current name of the area where one was born in the > main file of my FTM. Then in my notes I put the history of that area's > formation. >