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From: "Jean Todd" <>
Subject: [TMG-L:] Re: TMG-L: Re: Inserting data in a location field
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 20:52:39 +1000
References: <3.0.6.32.20000502121744.0089c100@saturn.vision.net.au>




>
> Australia wasn't formally constituted as a country until 1 January 1901,
> although it was informally referred to as such well before this date. So
if
> you wanted to be accurate, events before January 1901 should not have
> Australia as the country. I suppose the country in this case should
> technically be the United Kingdom, as Tasmania was a colony of the UK
> before 1901, albeit with extensive rights of self-government.
>
Australia was NEVER the United Kingdom. You are right in that it was a
colony and though you may call Tasmania Van Deimans Land it was never the
United Kingdom. If you put in place of birth as Lambing Flat instead of
to-days name of Young in a hundred years no one will know where you mean. So
many of our towns change names over the years, some two or three times and
many have been forgotton over the years as I have found out while trying to
decide where my particular ancestor was born. And I am not even a
Republican. ;-)

Jean
"Lang may your lum reek"
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