From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 14 22:01:36 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 k1F51ajb009471; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:01:36 -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 k1F51XND011845 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:01:33 -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 k1F2WfFI017202 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:32:41 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1F2WfRC017201 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:32:41 -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 k1F2CGFI017125 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:12:17 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1F4ewt4023660 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:40:58 -0700 X-Envelope-From: diannemedaris@comcast.net Tue Feb 14 21:40:58 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 k1F4ewjb023651 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:40:58 -0700 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.200.83]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1F4escN002146 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:40:55 -0700 Received: from dianne (c-24-23-57-127.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.23.57.127]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060215044050013004bjnie>; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:40:51 +0000 From: "DIANNE MEDARIS" To: "'Colleen'" , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Citing non-existent places Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:40:51 -0800 Message-ID: <000201c631ea$006d9e10$0300a8c0@Dianne> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 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 I have a similar problem. My great grandparents were born (with 50 miles of Vienna)in the mid-1800's. My grandmother always told me they were polish, yet the few census records of USA show them from Austria. They were Frank Drevick and Mary Drevick (nee Barron). I cannot find them on any immigration lists, nor have I been able to identify their origins in "Austria". The last name is not on any lists, so it may have been changed. I know they were in Montana in 1897 when their first son was born. They seem to have arrived by space ship!! -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Colleen Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:33 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Citing non-existent places This brings up a question that I haven't remembered to ask before. My great-grandmother, Justina Nahadil (sp?), was born in Fuenfkirchen, Austria. Which, I'm led to believe, is now known as Pecs and is in Hungary (I'm still working on this, as there may be another Fuenfkirchen in Austria, a very small area with a castle, is what I'm told. So far Google searches haven't borne this out). Anyway, my question is this: If your ancestor was born in a part of the world that used to be Austria, became part of Czechoslavakia, and is now in the Czech Republic, what nationality was she, and to which nationality would future generations from that ancestor claim to be? Our family tells that she was Austrian, and Census Records say Czechoslavakia. On 2/14/06, Listpig wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com