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<DIV>If establishing the "actual physical location" is meaningless, then why
would you want to try and establish coordinates for it? There has to be
some purpose for doing so that is perceived by the researcher. But in the
case you describe then the family did live in one location. You might have
been able to find more of that type of "record created in a nearby location"
type of thing if you carefully used maps (whether establishing coordinates or
not) and data tracking family and extended family.</DIV>
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<DIV>If physical location and fact are going to be misleading then just like you
would have to explain why the records were recorded in a one location, while the
family lived in another location, _whether or not you also marked one or the
other using a mapping tool_.</DIV>
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<DIV>Larry</DIV>
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<A title=raybeere@yahoo.com href="mailto:raybeere@yahoo.com">Ray Beere Johnson
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2010 3:35
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List]
APGPublicList Digest, Vol 12, Issue 38</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> Sorry, Larry, but I'm going to have to
disagree with you here. Even if you establish the "actual physical location",
it may be meaningless.<BR> Case in point? I have seen
multiple instances in New England where the actual physical location was in
one town, but where an event was recorded in a neighbouring town - because the
families in question happened to find it more convenient to travel there.
Often, this seems to have been a "cultural" issue, not necessarily a
geographic one.<BR> I even found one specific event
for a surname connected with my family recorded with records for another
_county_. Why? Simply because a minister for a certain town performed the
wedding ceremony in another town miles away - and the town clerk saw fit to
record the event "their" minister oversaw.<BR> In
other words, in at least some cases, actual physical location is highly
misleading in research - _if_ the researcher is unwary enough to get too hung
up on that
point.<BR>
Ray Beere Johnson II<BR><BR>--- On Mon, 11/1/10, L. Boswell <<A
href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">laboswell@rogers.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>> Sorry, maybe I'm missing something here, but I wouldn't say
the <BR>> physical location is less important than the artificial
boundaries. <BR>> How do you know which boundaries apply if you haven't
established the <BR>> actual physical location first (or early on in the
research process)? <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>