TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2002-08 > 1028205099


From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Recording Townships
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:34:09 -0400
References: <20020731.124709.-761045.10.dean.scribner@juno.com>


Dean Scribner wrote:
>
> If you do research in New England, the Township has the utmost relevance.
> In Maine before 1892 vital records were kept ONLY at the township level.
> As an example, I have a child born in Suncook, New Hampshire in 1872;
> you had better look in the vital records of the Town of Pembroke, or you
> aren't going to find her. In many cases, especially in the early years,
> the City is the one that's more genealogically irrelevant. That's why I
> record it as follows:
> Place Detail: Suncook
> City/Town: Pembroke
> County: Merrimack County
> State/Prov: New Hampshire
>
But Pembroke is a Town and not a Township. Townships do exist in Maine
but I think only in Maine. Suncook is a village in the Town of
Pembroke.

And when you listers, not Dean, quote something , quote the entire
sentence at least. I said:

> I follow the above with my many Canadian towns and Villages except I
> usually do not enter the Township a[s in Nova Scotia] it has little > genealogical relevance.>

In Prince Edward Island I enter Freeland, Lot 11, Prince County, PE,
-Canada as the Lot is commonly used; in MA: the Fifth Parish Church,
Sandy Bay, Gloucester, Essex County, MA as they are all relevant to
genealogy. But I do not usually enter LaHave, New Dublin Township,
Lunenburg County, NS, -Canada as the township is very seldom used.
Where it is in the source I do use it.


bob gillis

This thread: