US, New England—Petitions for Naturalization, 1787–1906 [Part O] [MQ5S-NMB]

Reid, Tiffany

One more question, thanks for your patience. This is my first time indexing one like this. For the birthplace do I type in everything that was written. I have read the directions about locality levels, but I'm still confused.

barbaragailsmith1

The first record would be "Skreen, Sligo, Ireland". We don't type things like parish or county.

erutherford

This will be indexed as Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain.

Keep in mind that if it states County Sligo, County Cork, etc., County is indexed. Ireland has counties because of the historical lack of the English Crown in Ireland (pre-1801) and ties to the French language (I think it was the Norman Invasion of Ireland. Been 20+ years since I studied that). It's also of note that Ireland was once part of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801-1922) and we index what the race or color or Birthplace was at the time of the document (this case, 1860). Do not index the 2024 version.

You go from lowest to highest when it comes to indexing the birth/death place. If I were born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, it would be Chicago (city), Cook (county) and Illinois (state) and if USA was after Illinois, you'd index United States of America (country) after Illinois.

maryellenstevensbarnes1

@Reid, Tiffany For Ireland birthplaces we do type the word county, like this "Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland". Quoting from @Julia Szent-Györgyi, It depends on the specific project whether you're supposed to expand "Co." to "County" or not, but for Irish counties, don't leave it off: if it was written on the document, index it.

barbaragailsmith1

Wait! Ruth is right. for the UK we do add County before the name.

John Curran

@barbaragailsmith1

County is not actually used in all instances in the UK. I believe you are confusing this with the Irish counties.

All counties in Ireland are always written with word County before the name. Examples being… County Antrim, or, County Dublin, or, County Cork. I believe this stems from the common situation in Ireland where a particular county also has a town of the same name situated within the county boundaries. Consistently placing the word "County" before the county name ensures that there is no confusion when referring to the county and when referring to the town of the same name.

In Great Britain (a part of the UK) the situation is quite different. In Great Britain the placing of the work "County" before a county name is seldom correct. A few examples being Kent, Essex, Devon, Lanarkshire which are never written with the word "County" before or after the county name. There are exceptions to this, one being "County Durham", and I believe it may be the only exception.

barbaragailsmith1

John Curran, Thanks for the explanation!