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Yes!!  Could we also do something with townships e.g.
 451  0  Union Township (Ohio : Fayette County)
 451  0  Union Township (Ohio : Union County)
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Martin Joachim wrote:

> Locating geographic names can be problematic if there are more than one
> place with the same name in a state, country, etc.  For example, there are
> established headings for Weimar (Hesse, Germany) and Weimar (Thuringia,
> Germany).  It seems to me that it would be useful to create routine
> references in this situation: e.g.,
>         451   0  Weimar (Germany : Hesse)
>         451   0  Weimar (Germany : Thuringia)
> For systems that allow derived key searches for geographic names, these
> would be useful references.  The famous Weimar is the one in Thuringia,
> but is the catalog user going to know that?  What do you all think?
> Should I propose to LC that this type of ref be routinely made?
>
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