On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:41:32 +1000, "Kiwi in Aus" <Wwftw_98@Yahoo.com> wrote: > How do others deal with this, you might start off with a place that is in > Essex at time of birth, but by the time a person dies same place is now > called Greater London, or South eastern Essex or what ever do you stay with > same place name or change with the passing time, I guess change with time is > more correct, I record what was correct at the time of the event'. For example, have several people born in Kent and dying in London' though the place is the same. I believe one should NOT "update". -- Jenny M Benson

On 02/06/2013 10:08, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:41:32 +1000, "Kiwi in Aus" <Wwftw_98@Yahoo.com> > wrote: >> How do others deal with this, you might start off with a place that > is in >> Essex at time of birth, but by the time a person dies same place is > now >> called Greater London, or South eastern Essex or what ever do you > stay with >> same place name or change with the passing time, I guess change > with time is >> more correct, > > I record what was correct at the time of the event'. For example, have > several people born in Kent and dying in London' though the place is the > same. I believe one should NOT "update". > Like the classic story of the Russian born in St Petersburgh, went to school in Petrograd, married in Leningrad and died in St Petersburgh. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>