Census Birth Place

gerrynuk · Post by **gerrynuk** » 26 Jun 2010 15:42

Nick,

This isn't urgent but I wonder if it would be possible to have an option to save the Birth Place as an additional place rather that the current options to either replace or ignore the entry?

The reason I ask is that I have come across a situation where someone gives different locations (or different spellings of the same location) in each census - none of which I can track down via the usual sources. So it would be useful to record all the alternatives for future research.

Gerry

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Post by **nsw** » 26 Jun 2010 19:06

I assume you mean that you want to be able to have multiple birth events recorded as you can't have multiple places for one birth event. There is an option to allow multiple birth events (Tools->Options->Census Settings->Birth Facts)

Best wishes

Nick

gerrynuk · Post by **gerrynuk** » 26 Jun 2010 20:21

Hi Nick,

Yes, I suppose what I was looking for was one birth entry with multiple places but multiple birth entries will do the trick. I can always delete the extra ones once I have found out where and when he was actually born.

Thanks.

Gerry

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 27 Jun 2010 17:34

What about using a standardized spelling in the place entry in FH itself, and then listing all the variants in a local note attached to the event?

e.g. 1841 [census ref no] birthplace appears as [spelling 1]
1851 [census ref no] birthplace appears as [spelling 2]

and so on

gerrynuk · Post by **gerrynuk** » 27 Jun 2010 20:26

What about using a standardized spelling in the place entry in FH itself, and then listing all the variants in a local note attached to the event?

Thanks for the suggestion but the place names he gives are so diverse that it is not even obvious that they are the same place! I am beginning to think that he has made up the names! I haven't found any of the places in any gazetteer or online map.

Gerry

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 28 Jun 2010 04:07

I presume among the online references you've already checked http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ ?

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 28 Jun 2010 14:35

I had a similar situation where one of my ancestors gave his place of birth as Lowick in 1851 (the parish) then Ooley in 1861 and Mt Ooley in 1871. I was driving up to Edinburgh one day and saw a tiny sign post for Mt Hooley which turned out to be the name of a farm in the parish of Lowick.

Have you looked at directories or old-maps.co.uk for the area concerned as you might find the name of a farm that matches.

Irene

Post by **hsw** » 28 Jun 2010 15:16

I have at least one ancestor who gave their place of birth as 'Trecoon Mill' (which happens to be the address at which they were born). If I hadn't already known very well the addresses within the parish concerned, I'd never have spotted them as my ancestor - particularly as Ancestry had further mangled the transcription. So I could only work out what was meant when I looked at the image.

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