I would like to keep the County Check on when I make entries. But, one place-name I use a lot always triggers a possible correction. I am wondering who I can send in a correction to.
My father’s birth city is LaGrange, Georgia. It is always written that way – with the “G” capitalized.
Any ideas who to deal with this?
There is no LaGrange county in Georgia. CountyCheck wouldn’t be looking at it if it was a city or town. Make sure you have the correct county for the time frame.
So sorry for the confusion.
The place name is: LaGrange, Troup, Georgia, United States.
The CountyCheck wants: Lagrange, Troup, Georgia, United States.
The difference being the capitalization of the “G” in LaGrange.
Looks like its running some DataClean “Improper capitalization” with the suggestion. I’ll let development know.
I don’t think this has anything to do with DataClean.
I normally run with County Check turned off. But I turned it on and entered a place called LaGrange, Troup, Georgia, United States. County Check wanted me to change it to Lagrange, Troup, Georgia, United States.
Both WikiPedia and the official Legrange web site spell it as LaGrange rather than as Lagrange.
That is exactly my experience, Jerry.
As I said, I normally run with County Check turned off. That’s because the way it suggests that place names be entered is so radically different than the way I want to enter place names. Even so, I do use RM’s Gazetteer feature a great deal. But in the case of RM’s Gazetteer feature, I treat it as a resource for suggestions, not as an authority. For example, for American place names, I normally consider the U.S.G.S Web site to be the most authoritative source for modern place names.
The situation for historical place names is trickier. For example, the date when a county was legally created often has little to do with when there was a functioning court house that could register deeds, issue marriage licenses, or process wills for probate. And sometimes, boundaries remain in dispute for decades and even for centuries.
Exactly my point. Thanks.
Can you give me the link to the USGS site that generated that info?
I am going to venture a guess that he went to the USGS search page and entered LaGrange and Georgia as paramters and he then select the Details link. You can probably repeat this at Geographic Names Information System
Like @thejerrybryan I run with County Check turned off for the UK as it insists on adding the superfluous Great Britain before 1801 and United Kingdom after 1801 (when Ireland was added to GB) . It makes the addresses too long and contributes nothing. Scotland, part of the UK, has always separately managed it’s civil registration (and church) data, Welsh data is coupled with England’s and Northern Ireland’s records pre partition are held in the Irish Republic (aka Ireland, Eire, etc); a completely different country. As Jerry says, it does nothing to assist in where to look for historic records.
USGS Domestic Names Then click on Search Domestic Names on the middle bottom of the screen. USGS is constantly improving their Web site to make it easier to use. Each time they do so, it becomes harder to use.
of course ZZ Top spelled it La Grange with a space 
