Edit Counties: Help

This page presents a list of all of the counties in a province and permits adding, deleting, and modifying the descriptions of counties. For each county there is a row in the table containing:

• A three-character mnemonic code used by other tables to identify a county. This field is read-only except on a line for adding a new county.
• The full name of the county.
• The year the county came into existence as an administrative entity. For Ontario this is almost always 1852. Prior to that some counties existed on the map, but had no administrative organization.
• The year the county ceased to operate as an administrative entity. For example Carleton county ceased to exist when it was subsumed into the City of Ottawa.
• A Delete button to delete the county.
• A Townshipsbutton to open the dialog for editing the list of lower level administrative units within the county, such as towns and townships.
• A Location button to open a child dialog to manage information recorded about the county as a location where events in the family tree occured.

At the bottom of the page there are two buttons:

• The Update Database button applies the changes you have entered on this page into the database. Note that pressing the Enter key while editing any input field also performs this function.
• The Add New County button adds a new row at the bottom of the table, permitting you to add a county.

Observe that the only way to change the three-character code identifying a county is to add a new county and then delete the old county.