place of death or place they lived and are buried

Question

I have something I been wondering about. Do you put actual place (county) of death or county where they lived and buried? Like if they died in a hospital in one county but lived and buried in another county.

Answer 1

I use the county where they actually die. I add notes in the biography where they actually lived, most often with  a census record.

Answer 2

Always use the place the event occurred and use the most specific location. That is, if yo know the city/town, use that along with county, state, country. Burial details go into the bio. Even in the Bio you should use the full location  the first time that location is mentioned in the bio. Remember, WikiTree is international and not everyone knows where places might be. For example, there are 23 city/town locations in the United States named Athens.

Answer 3

it depends in part on where that place was.  If the actual death place is known exactly - than I put that. My grandma's generation people usually died at their home or a child's home.  That makes it easy. My mom's generation people died at war, exact place unknown, in transit to a hospital,  in a trolley car accident - then I make a best guess and in the biography given details as known. Now I find it very rare for a person to be buried where they lived, at one time that was much more common.  Always an exception though - I have a number of relatives who died in Cairo, Illinois, where there were no cemeteries or Villa Ridge, Illinois where Cairo City Cemetery, Cairo 1st Baptist Church Cemetery, etc, so it is important to be sure you know where the cemetery is, before you assume that is also a death place

Comments

It's like this my mom died in a hospital in Clarke County Georgia but she lived in Madison County Ga and is buried in Madison County Ga so that's why I ask