Re: Reference a section of place
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Victor Markham
When I enter a place name in England I always give the place name it's full name. When it copmes to county names I always stick to the ancien boundary names. What we see today are known as administration boundary. As an example let's say Sheffield. If someone lived thewre in the 1960's or earlier they would be in West Yorkshire. When the boundary changed Sheffield became South Yorkshire, which is an admin boudary. I wouldn't bother to change thinghs from West to South. This sort of thing has happened all over the country so I stick to the old names. The boundaries are going through another change so it would mean one has to change things again if they do that. This is how I do place names anytown, anycounty, England (in one row) Followed by any street in the second row Both rows are separate on FH so it is easy to add the two addresses I would put the full name of the place like Kingston Upon Hull not just Hull When it comes to Yorkshire I would add East, North or West to Yorkshire. There are similar place names in say East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire (Scalby fr example) so one needs to know which is the right place Victor
On 16/08/2021 5:57 pm, Edward Sneithe
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