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The Common Room / How to record locations in Germany before unification?
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Hello!
I’m preparing to have my family tree printed and want to record locations as accurately as possible, based on what they were called at the time, rather than using modern names.
For example, I record English places like this:
Town/Village, County, Country
So an ancestor might be listed as b. 1939 Hendon, Middlesex, England because that was the historical county at the time, even though today it would just be considered London.
My question relates to my German ancestors before 1871, when Germany didn’t yet exist as a unified country.
For instance, I have an ancestor born in Hattendorf in 1863, which I currently have listed as Hattendorf, Schaumburg-Lippe.
What should I use for the “country” field? Since there was no unified Germany at that point, should I leave it as Schaumburg-Lippe alone, or is there another historically accurate way to record it?
I want the printed tree to reflect the correct names for that period, without adding modern terms that didn’t yet exist.
Any thoughts on this would be massively appreciated!
I’m preparing to have my family tree printed and want to record locations as accurately as possible, based on what they were called at the time, rather than using modern names.
For example, I record English places like this:
Town/Village, County, Country
So an ancestor might be listed as b. 1939 Hendon, Middlesex, England because that was the historical county at the time, even though today it would just be considered London.
My question relates to my German ancestors before 1871, when Germany didn’t yet exist as a unified country.
For instance, I have an ancestor born in Hattendorf in 1863, which I currently have listed as Hattendorf, Schaumburg-Lippe.
What should I use for the “country” field? Since there was no unified Germany at that point, should I leave it as Schaumburg-Lippe alone, or is there another historically accurate way to record it?
I want the printed tree to reflect the correct names for that period, without adding modern terms that didn’t yet exist.
Any thoughts on this would be massively appreciated!
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