How should I standardized the location of the Ivy Hill Cemetery?
Specifically, the problem comes with the following location (not cemetery name):
"Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.....".
I can't find standardization for Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States.
www.findagrave.com/cemetery/45186/ivy-hill-cemetery
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According to Wikipedia, Philadelphia the city has the same boundaries as Philadelphia the county. I wonder if the standards people considered Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States redundant and decided to just have Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States as the standard. Or it may be that officially the cemetery is under the county's jurisdiction, not the city's.
Whether you choose to include both city and county or not, you standardize it the same way, as Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Either type the name out fully using the county so your entry looks like this:
Or leave out either the city or the county so your entry looks like this:
Both are correctly standardized. The choice for the appearance of the displayed text is completely up to you. All that matters is that you have a green check mark when you are done.
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The one US city I have dealt with genealogically is San Francisco which appears to be like Philadelphia in that City and County have been consolidated. However, the standard place-names are San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (which is labelled as a city). So no consistency but probably no-one's noticed it before.
Looking at Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city-county apparently "A consolidated city-county differs from an independent city in that the city and county both nominally exist, although they have a consolidated government, whereas in an independent city, the county does not even nominally exist" Well, I've learned something. So it seems to me that both city and counties of both SF and Philly still nominally exist, so logically they should be treated the same - however, I suspect this may not be a huge issue once one fixes on a path?
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The accurate standardization for this is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As was mentioned by Gordon Collett and Adrian Bruce, when a major city and its county are consolidated, we (FamilySearch Places) try to reflect that in our database as one representative. In this case, the consolidation took place during the time that Pennsylvania became part of the United States, so we have Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the historical rep beginning with 1776. Prior to that, when it was still a colony, you will find Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America.
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Thanks Jeanine, for the info. There are probably several way to do a consolidated city & county, some better than others. This way sounds pretty reasonable to me...
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