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== Country sub-divisions: as in the FHL Catalog == | == Country sub-divisions: as in the FHL Catalog == | ||
For places smaller than a country use the name as it would appear if it were in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog. However, normally write the name in order from smallest to largest jurisdiction, for example, ''Chicago, Cook, Illinois'' | For places smaller than a country use the name as it would appear if it were in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog. However, normally write the name in order from smallest to largest jurisdiction, for example, ''Chicago, Cook, Illinois''. | ||
Also, use diacritics as they would appear in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the Family History Library Catalog, for example, ''Höfgen (AH. Meißen), Sachsen, Germany''. | |||
=== Administrative sub-divisions === | === Administrative sub-divisions === | ||
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Names of '''''classes''''' of places do what English does. In particular, when dealing with administrative subdivisions, we write of ''United States counties'' and '''''Cook County, Illinois''''', or of ''Russian oblasts'' and the '''''Moscow Oblast''''', but of Chinese and Roman provinces, not ''sheng'' or ''provinciae''. | Names of '''''classes''''' of places do what English does. In particular, when dealing with administrative subdivisions, we write of ''United States counties'' and '''''Cook County, Illinois''''', or of ''Russian oblasts'' and the '''''Moscow Oblast''''', but of Chinese and Roman provinces, not ''sheng'' or ''provinciae''. | ||
Also, use '''''Delaware Township, Hamilton, Indiana''''', but use '''''Cicero, Hamilton Indiana''''' for an incorporated municipality. | Also, use '''''Delaware Township, Hamilton, Indiana''''', but use '''''Cicero, Hamilton Indiana''''' for an incorporated municipality. | ||
== Disambiguation == | == Disambiguation == | ||