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Seen plenty of mistakes as I wittle down the placelocation lines in the MySql databaseHow on earth does some town's name get mixed up with the cemetary name? Well little do I know but it did. Shinnlegeorgevil, North Carolina, USA.
I thought maybe a baptist translator had a deal with someone down below. Getting down to business.
I figured a lot of town names end with ville, so I took out the le and put it at the end and was left with Shinn - georgeville. I next checked for Georgeville in North Carolina using my go to mapsite us-geographic.com and typed georgeville in the search box.
I came up with 11 resuts. I next used the drop State menu and selected North Carolina. Two results were left, Georgeville in Cabarrus County and Georgeville Township 9 in the same county.
At this point I definately knew I had the right name of the town that Mr. Little was buried in. I checked epodunk.com but didn't find any results. I then checked hometownlocator.com thinking I wouldn't find any results because Georgeville was a small community, but I did. I scrolled down to
Georgeville Directory of Business, Government & Social ServicesI looked at all the locations for Cemetaries and Churches, but I didn't see anything similar to Shinn.
I did a search at Google and found out that is was Shinn Plantation.
Some of us should know that being stumped by towns and counties which are all but long forgotten is nothing new in the genealogy world.
Ghost towns,villages, hamlets will most likely not be mentioned on the current maps. You may find that some are preserved by volunteers and community groups.
Some settlements move on because of economic times. Usually old mining communites, but more so lesser known towns dependant on the river ways are gone because of railroads and super highways. An example later on. Need to check my Google Books Library.
The expansion or making of new counties or townships is common so this has to be factored in to research being done on an individual. A supurb site I found is the Atlas Of Historical County Boundries which allows you to look at a period in American history from October 10, 1622 to December 31, 2000 for boundries of counties in each state along with chronologies and history of each state and county. There's also an index for all of the counties in each state.
More detailed information includes a description of the research problems or materials that were unusual or stood out in the research and compilation of the historical state and county lines and how the compiler handled them. Nice.
Along with an alphabetical list of the primary and secondary sources found useful in the historical research and compilation of the evolution of the state’s county and state boundaries to look at.
Important to use Established and Incorporated dates.
This scenero came up in one instance. "Same populated community but in a different county." Pennsylvania has 5 townships called Tyrone in different counties. I needed GPS map coordinates for a birth date. I didn't have any history on his man, so by using township dates I eliminated 3 townships. Another was eliminated because it was in a different county. It turns out that Tyrone in Blair County was the right general place to put the map coordinates in.
Tyrone is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Altoona, on the Little Juniata River. Tyrone was of considerable commercial importance in the twentieth century. It was an outlet for the Clearfield coal fields, and it was noted for the manufacture of paper products. There were planing mills, and chemical and candy factories. In 1900, 5,847 people lived here; in 1910, 7,176; and in 1940, 8,845 people resided here. The population was 5,528 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Altoona, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was named after County Tyrone in Ireland.
Map websites offer some hope to the answers beside Wikipedia. You can check out my Maps & Georgraphy links here .
Some of these relatives actually have published family histories. I found through doing a internet search that a brother and his sister published two family histories books. One in 1958 and another in 1964. Found at openlibrary.org Over 1.1M books scanned and 23 million book titles online.
I completed this along with a Boxee install and a toliet unplugging.
Nothing like "SAVING THE DAY".
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