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Subject: Your question re: birth place
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:10:37 EDT

Roger,

Each person has to decide for themselves how to do some of these things.
This is my take on your question.

The space for place of birth, death and burial should be the town, then
county, the state and finally the country. Even though many of us are in the USA
people these days can fly in just a few hours to any place in the world. St.
Petersburg or Georgia are examples often used -- do you mean Florida or the USA
or Russia? Does someone in Australia know that Sandusky is in Ohio? We all
know Hollywood is near Los Angeles in California...or do we?...I meant
Hollywood, Florida.

I would place the name of the hospital, the cemetery and the church were the
marriage or funeral services were in the notes. PAF has custom events that I
use a lot...although they tell us not to for the reason you quoted -- making a
GEDCOM is complicated by them.

Where you were born is the place where the hospital is/was located. When
people ask you can say "The hospital where I was born is in _______, but we lived
about 30 miles away in _________ and that is where I grew up." You could even
explain it that way in your notes. You were not born in the town where you
grew up.

That's just my personal opinion and the way I do it.

Regarding the "of, _______" I do use that when I do not know where the event
took place but know that they lived in this place (or children before and
after were born there) and that is likely where most of the records would be. I
could later find a document that says "Judy was born in Colorado when we were
visiting relatives." Likely no other records for Judy would be in Colorado...I
would know to look first in the area where the family lived. As with the
SSDI listed last place of residence...it may have been a hospital in the next
town or they could have died in an accident in the next county. I enter what I
know until proof appears.

Didn't mean to get us off-track of Erie County genealogy.

Sharon
in So. California

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