Looking at locations in Genealogy

Be Precise When Looking for a Location

When you are looking for a particular location, make sure you have precise information at hand. One quarter of a mile can make the difference between a report of a rail accident being found in, say, the State Archives of North Carolina, versus the Library of Virginia! I was recently helping someone try to locate a report of an accident so that he could properly cite it. His copy had been acquired decades ago from someone else with no source information attached. The newspapers and found materials, including the report, always referred to the accident happening near Granite, NC. Well, it ends up that an annual report of the Virginia Corporation Commission mentions that the accident actually took place a quarter mile north of the NC/VA border; so in Virginia. That quarter mile was all the difference in the world. When dealing with events near a border whether city/town, county, state, or international, exact location can matter!

By Diane Richard, Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today author






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