Thank you Gavin and Anne for your help.........I fear that I will have to redo much as I do not refer to a county as a "shire" if a Parish is included in the equation...........ooops. I imagine since the deaths were recorded within the Enzie registration district, I enter as such. I do include details from these records in my source citations. From what I have read, probably the best way to handle it. If you do not mind, will include the links that you sent. As always, your knowledge is very much appreciated.

Sherry wrote: >Thank you Gavin and Anne for your help.........I fear that I will have to >redo much as I do not refer to a county as a "shire" if a Parish is included >in the equation...........ooops. > > Blame the IGI. >I imagine since the deaths were recorded within the Enzie registration >district, I enter as such. > I think that's probably the safest thing to do. Although if you do manage to trace anyone before 1855 (start of civil registration) or 1835 (start of Old Parish Registers for the quoad sacra parish of Enzie) you should probably list people as from "Rathven, Banffshire" or "Bellie, Moray", together with a note to the effect that the administrative boundaries have been subject to change. Incidentally, this revision of boundaries continues. In 1974, the old counties were absorbed into new "Regions" (the mantra was then "big is beautiful"). Enzie, Rathven etc thus became part of Grampian Region. The Regional setup was in turn abolished in 1995, with the re-establishement (although with different boundaries) of some of the old counties. So there is now, once more, an "Aberdeenshire", which includes all of the former county of Kincardineshire, and about half of Banffshire, and a new version of the county of Moray, which includes the rest of Banffshire. And I recently read a press report that suggested moves towards combining some cointies into larger and more efficient groupings ..... I think that revising local government boundaries is in the nature of a hobby for the parliaments in Edinburgh and London. It takes their minds off the things they should be doing, but are failing to. Fortunately, as most records of use to genealogists are indexed according to the parish and county boundaries as they were from 1891 to 1974, we can generally ignore all these later shiftings of the deckchairs on the sinking ship. Gavin Bell