Just to alert you, in case you hadn't thought of this...
Find My Past, quite correctly, insists on exact transcriptions of what is on a document (so far as it can be read). This is fine for personal names, and for placenames, such as villages, towns etc. It becomes more of a problem when it's for a county name.
For the last century or so, county names have been pretty much fixed: there have been changes to boundaries, and counties have been invented, disbanded, re-invented, but the actual spellings of counties' names have been defined by the laws set up to create them.
I recently pointed out (with no great expectation of the policy being over-ridden) that it might be helpful to show a 1911 place of birth entry as "Bristol, Somerset", rather than "Bristol, Summerset", but FMP has stuck to its regular policy.
This is to alert you to the fact that, if you are using FMP (and, maybe, other sites) and cannot find your ancestor, you may have to experiment with alternative spellings for county names!
Christine
Find My Past, quite correctly, insists on exact transcriptions of what is on a document (so far as it can be read). This is fine for personal names, and for placenames, such as villages, towns etc. It becomes more of a problem when it's for a county name.
For the last century or so, county names have been pretty much fixed: there have been changes to boundaries, and counties have been invented, disbanded, re-invented, but the actual spellings of counties' names have been defined by the laws set up to create them.
I recently pointed out (with no great expectation of the policy being over-ridden) that it might be helpful to show a 1911 place of birth entry as "Bristol, Somerset", rather than "Bristol, Summerset", but FMP has stuck to its regular policy.
This is to alert you to the fact that, if you are using FMP (and, maybe, other sites) and cannot find your ancestor, you may have to experiment with alternative spellings for county names!
Christine
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