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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Which name to use
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:17:15 -0600
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Lee,
Great advise. Also places attached as repositories don't get deleted, so
that is always an option too.
Teresa Ghee Elliott
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From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Which name to use


> Jeff Piper wrote:
> >The Uk Standard style in TMG is
> >
> >Addressee, Detail, Village/Area, Town/City, County, Country.
> >
> >So the English County is in the same place as the US State.
> >
> >It is still difficult because what was a Village/Area on one date then
> >becomes a Town/City later on so exactly where to put a place can cause
> >problems, especially as there are further sub levels not catered for.
>
> In such a case, I suggest entering a another place record. For both (or
> all if you have three or more) place records, you can enter a Start year
> and End Year. Thus you can have place records that are pertinent to
> specific events. For example, you may have a place record for
> Faringdon in Berkshire and another place record for Faringdon in
> Oxfordshire. The Berkshire record would have an End year of 1974 while
the
> Oxfordshire record would have a Start year of 1974.
>
> Now_IF_ Faringdon happened to have been in a different county before say
> 1900, then you would change the Start year for the Birkshire record to
1900
> and create a new place record with an End year of 1900 for the earlier
> county. The result would be three place records for Faringdon -- each
with
> a different county and showing the Start and End years for one (Berkshire)
> and the others would only have the End year (earlier county) and the Start
> year (Oxfordshire) like this:
> City/Town County Start Year End year
> Faringdon early county 1900
> Faringdon Berkshire 1900 1974
> Faringdon Oxfordshire 1974
>
> If Faringdon had been formed out of say three nearby villages, then you
> might have place records for each of the villages in the appropriate
County
> [including (or not) a City/Town as appropriate] and the Start years as
> appropriate and the End year being when Faringdon was formed. Then you
> would enter a Start Year for the first Faringdon record.
>
> In most cases, if a place record is not used in TMG (not attached to a Tag
> or Repository) then it will be deleted during the Optimizing
> procedure. However, any place record having a Start year, End year, or a
> Short Place or Comment entry will never be deleted. So you can have a
> series of place records showing the general history of that area even if
> one or more of the place records are not used.
>
> Hope this helps -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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