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From: Hettrick/Hill <>
Subject: Missing Links - Mason Co Info
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:55:20 -0700

Hi,

Here's a snip of an article in Missing Links which uses Mason County KY
as an example. A bad example - I'm now wondering how many "Mason
County VA" references I should have been paying attention to!

Diane

From sunny Puget Sound, Washington State
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MISSING LINKS: A Weekly Newsletter for Genealogists
Vol. 2, No. 50, 12 December 1997
Copyright 1997 by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley

WELDING LINKS: CITING CORRECT SITES

by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG

Some of my early genealogy education and source citation
instructions came from F. Wilbur Helmbold's "Tracing Your
Ancestry" and Val Greenwood's "The Researcher's Guide to American
Genealogy." Neither addresses the locality recording problem. My
first quandary pertaining to the proper way of entering
information about a locality came when I was ready to record the
place of marriage for my maternal grandparents who were married
15 October 1899 in the Creek Nation of Indian Territory. The
locality now is Muskogee County, Oklahoma. So what is the proper
way to record this locality? It is amazing how few of our
"how-to" genealogy guides discuss this problem, which is a common
one encountered by American genealogists.

Locations should be described in the geographic and
government-jurisdictional terms in use at the time the
event occurred. However, one can include, parenthetically or in
endnotes, where a locality currently is. Simple, isn't it? Not
always. If your ancestors were among the early settlers of what
today is Mason County, Kentucky from say 1775 to 1800 you would
have to record the locality, depending on the time frame, as:

Fincastle County, Virginia (1772-1776)
Kentucky County, Virginia (1776-1780
Fayette County, Virginia (1780-1786)
Bourbon County, Virginia (1786-1789)
Mason County, Virginia (1789-1792)
Mason County, Kentucky (1792- ).

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