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From: "J & R Gay" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Recordsearch for Stockport
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:21:30 +1030
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Sounds to me like the Family Search people need to set up an authorised list
of place names that all transcribers conform to so you only have one choice
for a place like Stockport. If a place has changed counties over the years
then there should be an entry for each time period to indicate that. It is
the sort of thing that librarians use the world over so that subject
headings attached to the items in their libraries are consistent.
Cheers
Jenni
In Adelaide where it is 41 deg today




----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Millward" <>
To: "Cheshire List" <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CHS] Recordsearch for Stockport


>A possibly helpful suggestion for those researching Stockport events on
> Family Search.
>
> If you type "Stockport" in the location field you will be presented with 3
> relevant possibilities all of which refer to the same location but give
> widely varying results, possibly because the transcribers used these
> different locations. Do not simply pick the first choice.
>
> Stockport, England, United Kingdom
> Stockport, Stockport, England, United Kingdom
> and
> Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
>
> I have found that the most useful one is the last one.
>
> Often I get no hits using the others but there must be entries for some
> records otherwise why are the choices there? Perhaps different churches in
> Stockport are listed under different location names. St Mary's and St
> Thomas' seem to appear using the third choice but maybe not exclusively.
>
> Infortunately we have no way of knowing in advance which choice contains
> our
> own required data and this makes searching a little tedious.
>
> The same problem may exist for other locations but I have little
> experience
> of them yet.
>
>
> Eric MILLWARD.
> My virus-free Family Tree is at
> http://genman.worldonline.co.uk/FamilyHistory.html (updated 22 November
> 2009).
> My photo gallery (non-genealogy) is at http://flickr.com/photos/bruckshaw/
>
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