I always use what was the official name at the time of the event. Therefore a birth in Lambeth in the mid 1800s is in Surrey not in London. The same would apply to an event in Bournemouth which used to be in Hampshire but is now in Dorset. I don't see what the alternative is. Putting past events into the context of modern boundaries is technically incorrect as the areas did not exist in that form at the time. Nick Nick Serpell nick.serpell@serpell.org On 21 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Shelagh wrote: > Original query from Marlene was " When filling in census returns with > 'Ancestral Sources,' sometimes the parishes have moved boundaries > and are now in adjacent counties. Occasionally the county is completely > wrong! > Please can anyone tell me how I should be recording these? > "As is" or with the present day county?" > > Some of the new "counties" such as Merseyside and Greater Manchester are in > fact administrative counties and not shire counties. My personal preference > is for the shire county, and where places have moved from one to another I > have used the county of the period. EG Widnes and Warrington are now in > Cheshire, however they used to be in Lancashire. If the event I am recording > occurred in Warrington Lancashire that is what I put, if the event happened > last year I would record Warrington Cheshire. I will not record Liverpool as > being in Merseyside as that is an administrative county, whereas it is still > in the County Palatine of Lancaster. > > What do others do? > > > Shelagh > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The counties that had names changed had it done for administration purposes. As far as I am concerned the old county boundaries and names are historical boundaries and will always remain so and I continue to use them even after the 1974 admin changes. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Nick Serpell <nick.serpell@serpell.org> Sender: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:52:13 To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Which County? I always use what was the official name at the time of the event. Therefore a birth in Lambeth in the mid 1800s is in Surrey not in London. The same would apply to an event in Bournemouth which used to be in Hampshire but is now in Dorset. I don't see what the alternative is. Putting past events into the context of modern boundaries is technically incorrect as the areas did not exist in that form at the time. Nick Nick Serpell nick.serpell@serpell.org On 21 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Shelagh wrote: > Original query from Marlene was " When filling in census returns with > 'Ancestral Sources,' sometimes the parishes have moved boundaries > and are now in adjacent counties. Occasionally the county is completely > wrong! > Please can anyone tell me how I should be recording these? > "As is" or with the present day county?" > > Some of the new "counties" such as Merseyside and Greater Manchester are in > fact administrative counties and not shire counties. My personal preference > is for the shire county, and where places have moved from one to another I > have used the county of the period. EG Widnes and Warrington are now in > Cheshire, however they used to be in Lancashire. If the event I am recording > occurred in Warrington Lancashire that is what I put, if the event happened > last year I would record Warrington Cheshire. I will not record Liverpool as > being in Merseyside as that is an administrative county, whereas it is still > in the County Palatine of Lancaster. > > What do others do? > > > Shelagh > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message