I think Marie, is trying to get across to those with web sites, or any form of database, that it is important to make sure that you put place names in full, otherwise you are putting yourself in grave jeopardy of misleading those looking at the information you are recording. Paul 2627 On 10/3/17 06:40 PM, Ken Toll wrote: > Marie, it depends on which > Avon, Essex, Paris, Cairo, Berlin and York you are referring to! > > For example, if it is the County of Avon in the UK, then probably > under Somerset or wherever it was pre-1974. If it was Avon (IN), Avon > (OH), Avon (CT), Avon (CO), or Avon (MA), then I'd list it under the > appropriate US State. > > Of course If you were referring to another Country, like Avon, Ont, CA > - then I'd list it there instead. > > Is that what you were alluding to? > > Ken > > On 10 March 2017 at 16:06, Marie Byatt <morris12m@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> How good are you? >> >> I have found 6 marriages - on each in >> Avon, Essex, Paris, Cairo, Berlin and York >> >> How would you list them in your study? >> >> >> Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com >> 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com >> Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ >> 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://scroop.one-name.net'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? >> http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? > http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

True Paul But these are all records I've found on other people's trees - no clue to WHereabouts Looking at a place finder - more than 50 Avons, 32 Essex, 49 Paris, 17 Cairo, 89 Yorks and over 100 Berlins. The information is nearly meaningless if you can't even tell what country the event happened in. It is just so important to make sure your reader knows which occurrence of a place name you are referring to. Town, County/state and country will usually do the trick - but more detail is always welcome. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net ----- Original Message ----- From: W. Paul Featherstone <wpaulf@gmail.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [G] Place Names I think Marie, is trying to get across to those with web sites, or any form of database, that it is important to make sure that you put place names in full, otherwise you are putting yourself in grave jeopardy of misleading those looking at the information you are recording. Paul 2627 On 10/3/17 06:40 PM, Ken Toll wrote: > Marie, it depends on which > Avon, Essex, Paris, Cairo, Berlin and York you are referring to! > > For example, if it is the County of Avon in the UK, then probably > under Somerset or wherever it was pre-1974. If it was Avon (IN), Avon > (OH), Avon (CT), Avon (CO), or Avon (MA), then I'd list it under the > appropriate US State. > > Of course If you were referring to another Country, like Avon, Ont, CA > - then I'd list it there instead. > > Is that what you were alluding to? > > Ken > > On 10 March 2017 at 16:06, Marie Byatt <morris12m@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> How good are you? >> >> I have found 6 marriages - on each in >> Avon, Essex, Paris, Cairo, Berlin and York >> >> How would you list them in your study? >> >> >> Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com >> 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com >> Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ >> 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://scroop.one-name.net'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? >> http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? > http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks for explaining it, Paul. It's on my to-do list - which is getting longer, not shorter! Any thoughts on which would be better: - Wortley Yorkshire - Wortley WRY Andy At 01:07 11/03/2017, you wrote: >I think Marie, is trying to get across to those with web sites, or any form of database, that it is important to make sure that you put place names in full, otherwise you are putting yourself in grave jeopardy of misleading those looking at the information you are recording. > > >Paul

I would use Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. I only use Chapman codes on Birth Reg, Marriage Reg, and Death Reg., Because I can find must quicker when searching, once I have the Baptism, Birth, Marriage, or Deaths they are entered with a full place name including country. When I have all I will change the code to the full county- I might get that finished in 20 years or so :-) Paul 2627 On 11/3/17 07:21 AM, Andy Micklethwaite wrote: > Thanks for explaining it, Paul. It's on my to-do list - which is getting longer, not shorter! > > Any thoughts on which would be better: > - Wortley Yorkshire > - Wortley WRY > > Andy > > At 01:07 11/03/2017, you wrote: >> I think Marie, is trying to get across to those with web sites, or any form of database, that it is important to make sure that you put place names in full, otherwise you are putting yourself in grave jeopardy of misleading those looking at the information you are recording. >> >> >> Paul > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? > http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Andy The difficulty with the Wortley place name is that there is the District by Penistone and the suburb of Leeds. Both West Riding unless recent references. Maybe if it refers to the district then it could be named Wortley District (which is definitive and can be looked up on a website) and if the village: Wortley, Penistone, YWR or if the suburb Wortley, Leeds YWR. There may be other Wortley places... As it happens I was at school in Penistone and used to do winter time cross country runs in the snow around Wortley. Is the answer to adopt a standard glossary of places eg Ancestry.com although I would not offer to go back and change the thousends of names in my database. John On 11 March 2017 at 07:21, Andy Micklethwaite <andy.mick@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thanks for explaining it, Paul. It's on my to-do list - which is getting longer, not shorter! > > Any thoughts on which would be better: > - Wortley Yorkshire > - Wortley WRY > > Andy > > At 01:07 11/03/2017, you wrote: >>I think Marie, is trying to get across to those with web sites, or any form of database, that it is important to make sure that you put place names in full, otherwise you are putting yourself in grave jeopardy of misleading those looking at the information you are recording. >> >> >>Paul > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? > http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Prof John K Coldwell Aiming to build a worldwide history of Coldwell people. Please join in! Facebook: Coldwell Genealogy Group Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org/profiles/coldwell.html Coldwell & Couldwell surname information: www.coldwell.info

Hi List, I for one hate abbreviations. We were never allowed to use them back in my nursing days because of the possible mix ups that could come about. When it comes to my genealogy I always use the town name, county name,country. So Mr.Blogs was born in Whoop-whoop, near Thunder Box, Western Australia. Or born in Blue Town, Kent, England. Regards Ann Spiro Guild ONS Representative for WA & NT. rep-australia-north-west@one-name.org Guild registered surnames: BASKETT; BRIGGS  http://www.one-name.org/ Baskett DNA Project: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Baskett