Born in the State of Franklin

Yes,

And so to for some of my Ancestors.

Born or moved to counties that were broken up.

Buncombe Co. split up to form several other Counties.

Clay Co, Missouri, split up to form several other counties including, Daviess County.

Wikipedia has some great info if you kinda sort it out.

Another Thing is How do you enter Colonies ????
Virginia Colony, England ???? Then a Date ???

The "correct way" , if you have enough information, would to list it as if he were alive to day and put qualifiers after it.
In the form it would look like (Under edit location)

Place name:
Country: USA
State: MO
City:Gallatin
County: Daviess (Formerly Ray)

In the case of a territory, the territory is the "State"

State: OK (Fornerly Indian Teritory)

If you get up in Maryland name, you may end up with USA (Formerly Canada)

during the 1600's you may end up with

Something Like

Place name:
Country: USA (Formerly New Sweden/New Netherland)
State: NY
City: New York (Formerly New Amsterdam)
County: (Unknown)

Ithe Idea is to list a place that people can find today, but also show what is was called at the time of the persons life.

Really there are a lot of ways depending on the place and time. Just trying to be accurate is the whole point here. Some profiles may have lived in several countries in thier lifetime but was born, lived and died in the same house, it just the country that changed. It can get tricky.

I don't agree, Marvin. For me, the "correct" way is to list it as it was at the time, and then to note what it is today. So I would flip yours around and put --for example, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Just for the record, I think what you have noted is fine, since it provides all the information-- except that I take issue with your calling it the "correct" way ;^).

And yes, I will change Davy's to State of Franklin. Good catch!

Sounds like some needs to start a Project on the State of Franklin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin

Marvin, want to catch that ball? ;^)

As you must know I said "correct" because there is no "correct" way. The way I said to do it is because if you type in what it's called today, it will auto fill, then you can add the rest. This is a big "whatever"

As for a State of Franklin project, I'm neck deep in other projects right now, you go a head with it Pam.