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From: Bud Dorr <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Place Names...Yet Again
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:49:12 -0500


Hugh, it's great reading your replies! I love history and am learning a lot from
them. It seems everyone agrees (more or less) that the political realities
extant at the time of the event are what should go into the various place name
slots with a present day update in parens - Massachusetts (Maine). Now I have to
tackle Canada! <g> I'm going to risk another question. How does one use the
LatLong, and what does it do for you?

Bud Dorr

Hugh Wilding wrote:
>
> Bud Dorr wrote:
>
> > The more I think about this (a big mistake, I'm afraid!)
>
> Just remember, you said it <g>.
>
> > I have several hundred ancestors born in the State of Maine. Maine became
> a
> > state in 1820; before then it was part of Massachusetts. Do I change
> everything
> > prior to 1820 to Massachusetts? It just sounds silly, yet I realize that
> most
> > records for those locations before 1820 are stored in Massachusetts. There
> are
> > 49 other states. What have more experienced users done?
>
> I think that the game plan is always to give it as it was stated to be or,
> failing a statement, as you know it to have been at the time. The Lat.Long
> field can help you in this respect by providing a known constant.
>
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