From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Feb 18 16:20:35 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 k1INKZjb014503; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:20:35 -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 k1INKZrd015686 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:20:35 -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 k1IKpRFI006688 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:51:27 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1IKpRWb006687 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:51:27 -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 k1IKlsFI006618 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:47:54 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1INGnMu012135 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:16:49 -0700 X-Envelope-From: treviawbeverly@houston.rr.com Sat Feb 18 16:16:49 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 k1INGnjb012126 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:16:49 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1INGjkr013751 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:16:46 -0700 Received: from oemcomputer (cpe-24-175-91-92.houston.res.rr.com [24.175.91.92]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1INGju2010264; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:16:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002601c634e1$c85c0e80$6401a8c0@oemcomputer> From: "Trevia W Beverly" To: "Richard" , References: Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Place of Death Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:19:35 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 Richard, both places would be of importance and I'd certainly note both. But perhaps you are asking if a person, for instance, died in Houston, Harris Co TX but lived not many miles away in Conroe, Montgomery Co TX. The county of death is most important to show on your charts because that county is where you will find not only the death certificate (also at the state level, depending on the time period) but other records as well. These could include but not be limited to death record, hospital record, corner's record, etc. If by chance the person were visiting and an accident - or, heaven forbid, a murder - occurred then most likely the [in our example] Houston papers would have carried at least a brief news story. It is important to record in your 'notes' area that the person lived in Montgomery Co because you'll definitely find other records there. Most likely, in addition to the usual records, you'll find funeral home **and cemetery records, obituary, as well as monument company records. ** if nearby, as Conroe is to Houston, the same funeral home would probably have transported the body back home, but in some instances one funeral home may have taken the body to the home county to be turned over to a local funeral home for the services. But the simple and correct answer to 'where died' is the actual place of death - city - county -state. If died in a foreign country then there would be other records to look for - such as Body in Transit records. Go to our Clayton Library Friends website to read a short article (NY) .. there would be other states that did/do the same thing. http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/clf/clf.html and scroll down to Newsletter ... "Bodies in Transit" by Elizabeth Nitschke Hicks (vol. 11, no. 2, May 1997). Trevia Wooster Beverly Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard" To: Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:47 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Place of Death > The discussion about how to properly name places got me to thinking > about a related question. > > When the place where the person died is different than their last > place of residence, which do you use as the place of death. > > For example, a person goes to a hospital that is in a different town > and perhaps a different county from where they live. Then they die in > the hospital. > > Or perhaps they die while travelling in another country. > > Is there a standard on which to use? > > -- > Richard > http://goepel.ancestryproject.com/ > Grow your own family tree! > http://iraq.ancestryproject.com/ > Iraq War Veterans Memorial