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From: "Carol Simpson" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Post Office vs City on Census
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:34:48 -0900
References: <POENLLHMPOCPDBGCMKALKEICFOAA.klcoleman@earthlink.net>


Kim and Glenn,

Thanks to both of you for the specifics. I grew up in MD (DC suburb), but my
parents were from Springfield, MA. Nearly all of my research is in CT, and
that is where my heart is! Some day I hope to be able to live there for a
few years.

Here in AK, I live in a small town (population about 4,500). There are four
even smaller towns around us who all get their mail through our post office.
People address it to those towns, but the zip code for them all (including
mine) is the same. This all makes sense to me. Thanks to all who replied.

By the way, I am still the ONLY person in AK who put a marker on the Frapper
map! :(

Carol Simpson
Homer, Alaska

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Coleman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Post Office vs City on Census


>I Live in a small town (New Fairfield) a suburb of Danbury, CT. The post
> office my mail comes from is in Danbury. It used to be New Fairfield but a
> few years ago when I stopped the mail for a vacation and went to New
> Fairfield to pick it up they explained that my mail was now coming
> straight
> out of Danbury and I needed to go down there to retreive it. I assume this
> is because I live so close to the Danbury line, but I do indeed live in
> New
> Fairfield!
>
> I once lived in Bridgeport for a few years. If I looked out my front
> window,
> the folks accrossed the street were in Trumbull. I believe that your
> ancestors did indeed live in Trumbull but had their mailed delivered by a
> Bridgeport mailman. Perhaps the small towns did not (and still don'T) have
> enough mailmen to support them so they get help from the bigger cities
> near
> the borders. At least that is my guess. Hope that helps.
>
> Kim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Simpson [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:17 PM
> To:
> Subject: [TMG] Post Office vs City on Census
>
>
> I am entering a lot of censuses right now and am not clear on how the post
> office (if there is one) and the city differ. Which is the bigger area -
> i.e., are post offices in cities (as they are today) and so that refers
> sort
> of to neighborhoods, or are multiple townships/cities in one post office
> area? I am including both in the CD, but am unsure of the best way to put
> them on the tag. Options:
> (1) Record city in city field and leave PO off the tag (just in the CD).
> (2) Record the PO in the city field and leave the city off the tag (just
> in
> the CD).
> (3) Record the PO in the detail field and city in the city field (and both
> in the CD, too).
>
> I have been mostly leaving the PO off the tag, but came to an entry just
> now
> where they lived in what is now a suburb of Bridgeport CT in 1870. That
> town is now small and Bridgeport is big, but in 1870 it may have been the
> other way around, as the town is labeled as the city and Bridgeport is the
> PO. I wonder if Bridgeport was smaller than Trumbull in 1870, but on the
> other hand, I have lots of Bridgeport families, too, and the
> household/family numbers are quite high.
>
> Part of what influences me in what info to put on the tag is the
> consideration of where to look for other details, either for myself or
> others, later. So I wonder where other town-level records might be found
> at
> this point - in Trumbull or Bridgeport? Any advice regarding this concept
> in
> general, and perhaps this instance in particular?
>
> Thanks,
> Carol Simpson
> Homer, Alaska
>
>
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