Place of Marriage

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 04 Apr 2010 10:01

I am sure this has been discussed before but I can't find the thread. When I first started using FH I recorded place of marriage/baptism as the Church e.g. Chelsea, St Lukes, London

This allowed me to report on events that took place in a particular church. Now I am wondering if St Lukes should be the address on marriage entries since the bride and groom often have different addresses so you have to enter them as two different residence facts any way.

How does everyone else handle this?

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PatrickT · Post by **PatrickT** » 04 Apr 2010 12:01

I put the place down as the town, village, parish etc and insert the venue, if known, as an address (church, chapel, synagogue, register office etc). I suspect this is the method most people use.

bgriffiths · Post by **bgriffiths** » 04 Apr 2010 12:55

I started off putting the church into the address line. However as I now upload to a TNG website which has Google Maps geotaggging functionality I have switched to putting the church name as part of the place. I'm not entirely happy with this method, but I can't see another easy way of doing it
BrianG

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 04 Apr 2010 13:50

I am trying to find a consistent approach as I want my reports to make sense. The problem with recording the Church as the address on a marriage makes no sense since you cannot really do this on a baptism or burial since the individual's address is in the register so it should appear in the address field of the event - or do other people record it as a separate residence attribute?

PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 04 Apr 2010 14:17

I would use FH's Place and Address fields for an Event, e.g. birth, baptism, marriage, death, or burial, to record where the event in question happened. The addresses recorded on baptism and marriage certificates are evidence for residence attributes rather than for where the baptism and marriage events occurred. However, if places of birth and death are recorded on birth and death certificates, they should be entered as such in FH.

No doubt Nick Walker will in due course be working hard to ensure that later versions of Ancestral Sources handle these issues correctly. But I expect there may be some debate about what is really 'correct'.

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