Re: Opinions on entering location/place data


> > The point being that one does not immigrate from Michigan to Florida --
> > they're both part of the US, so one migrates. Both England and
> > what-is-now-Massachusetts were part of the UK by 1620, so someone
> > who moved from Somerset, England, UK to Plymouth Colony, North
> > America, UK was migrating, not immigrating.
> >
> > Cheryl Singhals <singhals@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I don't think anyone was migrating within the UK in 1620 since the
> UK didn't come into existence until 1801. My understanding of the
> timeline is that it was England until 1707 when Great Britain was
> formed, uniting England and Wales with Scotland. The United Kingdom
> came about in 1801 when Ireland was added. (And, in 1922, 26
> predominately Catholic Irish counties left, forming the Irish Free
> State.)
>
> David Inman <inman009@xxxxxxxxxx>


Whatever it's called, the point remains: The governing authority
was in LONDON, you can call it the UK or GB or England, but it still
isn't immigration because there wasn't a separate government (and
hence a separate country) until after the Treaty of Paris in 1787.

Cheryl

singhals@xxxxxxxxx
.

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