On 9 Jun at 14:19, "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl> wrote: > "Kiwi in Aus" wrote in message > news:KOOdnXnM3a69RjfMnZ2dnVY3go-dnZ2d@giganews.com... > > 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, What is correct? Usually one put a source reference with any record. The data in the record should be what is in the source. You may therefore have two, or more records, first of the original event and second of the place name change(s) at a subsequent date. Both need references. Is this correct? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:32:47 +0100, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote: >On 9 Jun at 14:19, "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl> >wrote: > >> "Kiwi in Aus" wrote in message >> news:KOOdnXnM3a69RjfMnZ2dnVY3go-dnZ2d@giganews.com... >> >> 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, > >What is correct? > >Usually one put a source reference with any record. The data in the >record should be what is in the source. > >You may therefore have two, or more records, first of the original event >and second of the place name change(s) at a subsequent date. Both need >references. > >Is this correct? > A later change of name will not be in the original source so any mention of the new name ought to be by way of a comment e.g. "Fred Smith of Great Boughton [now Chester]".

Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote, Sunday, June 09, 2013 2:32 PM >> I guess change with time is more correct, > What is correct? > Usually one put a source reference with any record. > The data in the record should be what is in the source. ... is what I would do. > Is this correct? The "correct" answer is - "whatever floats your boat" ! It's YOUR hobby / Tree - you do whatever *you* prefer.