Countries

Countries

Darch people have been recorded in events in these countries.

Places are defined at four levels to enable me to group nearby places:

This is not a perfect structure, especially in England, where Districts do not fit properly into Counties, so sometimes, villages end up 'belonging' to the wrong county. But it meets my need to be able to look at sub-county groups of villages to find people who have moved a short distance.

Sometimes the data cannot help me place an event in a particular place and 'unknown' is used to hold such data at each level, right up to 'Unknown Country', until I find a confirming data source which provides better 'granularity' of place.

11 October 2009
Dick Glover, Cambridge, England.