You obviously haven't been following very closely ;-) As thats exactly what I said much earlier I record it as found in the period or record Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 02/04/2016 21:26, Rod Moulding via wrote: > I've been watching this thread, which is (as Peter says) rather important. > I've been surprised that no-one has enunciated the simple principle that so > many of us follow: this is, record a place or address as it was at the time > the event referred to happened. This means using the data that was > available to our forebears, and recognising that contemporary readers may > need to do some mental adjustment. So, "Yorkshire" not "East Yorkshire" nor > "East Riding" nor (definitely not) "Humberside". It also means "Gold Coast" > not "Ghana", "Straits Settlements" not "Malaysia" or even "Malaya", > "Galicia, Austria" not "Poland" or "Ukraine", and so forth. Be historically > faithful, both to your sources and to your forebears. > > Rod Moulding --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus