User talk:Dhenderson359

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Places within places [7 December 2016]

Hi
The Scottish Borders are places on my WeRelate watchlist, so I have just seen the additions to your Henderson family. I assume Barnhills and Clintmains are farms where your family resided. Usually, in cases like this, we don't add another layer of places below parish level. Instead we enter the name in the description box on the right of the birth or death line on the Person page. This box only shows up in "edit mode", but the results print below the birth or death place on the finished entry. The facility is especially useful for censuses when you want to enter a street address in a town, but it can also be used for named farms in more rural areas.

If you have trouble following my explanation above, take a look at the entry for my ggg grandfather, John Gibson who lived in Kirkcudbrightshire.

My family ended up in Ontario, too, but I live in the UK.

regards, --Goldenoldie 20:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I will think about changing from places to using the description field for farm locations. That works well for hospitals and farms in Canada, where the geolocation for the containing place is often accurate enough.

For the time being, I will leave the places there. I am very interested in being able to place these locations accurately on, e.g., Google Maps, to gain insight into the movements and relationships of these families at a finer level of detail than the parish.

From my understanding of the living arrangements of some of my ancestors, the farm, e.g. Clintmains included a number of dwellings; a manor for the laird, and several houses for servants, laborers and tenant farmers.

As indicated on this Old Berwickshire map, this settlement contained a school.

dhenderson359 21:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

GEDCOM Export Ready [7 December 2016]

The GEDCOM for tree AlexHenderson is ready to download. Click here.

Place names in Alberta [3 April 2017]

Hi I saw your question on the Support page and thought it might be easier to make a suggestion on a one-to-one basis.

First, you are right to decide on a uniform way to name counties.

Second, I gather the places you have listed are (1) within Minburn County, (2) quite small and (3) that Minburn County is the local administration for all of them.

What I do for little places like these is to "redirect" them to the administration place. Using Innisfree as an example,

• make a place page for it (you've done that).
• on the Innisfree place page, write #redirect[[Place:Minburn County No. 27, Alberta, Canada]]

Then you can happily say that someone was born in Innisfree, but if another user clicks on Innisfree he or she will be directed to the Minburn County No. 27 page where Innisfree will be listed under the Alt Names at the top with from redirect after it. In "edit" you can change from redirect to hamlet in county or however you want to describe it. These little places do not appear in the list of places on the Alberta page.

I use the "See also" box for places higher up the administration ladder which may also hold documents to do with Minburn County No. 27 either currently or historically. But I don't know Alberta well enough to be able to tell you what might be in between the individual counties and the province. What you do have to be careful of is when two places in different parts of the province have been named the same.

I'm from Ontario, but left before they started reorganizing it in the 1970s. Here in WeRelate I work on the geography of England and Scotland.

Hope this helps
--Goldenoldie 18:40, 3 April 2017 (UTC)