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This page presents a list of all of the cities, towns, villages, and townships in a county which had a clerk for registering vital statistics.

Townships Edit Dialog

This page permits adding, deleting, and modifying the descriptions of individual cities, towns, villages, and townships. For each city, town, village, or township there is a row in the table containing:

  • A unique string which is used to identify the town, village, or township within vital statistics records. This is almost always the same as the display name for the location, but needs to be slightly different to deal with situations where two different municipalities within a county have the same name. For example many towns have the same name as the township that they are physically located within. This is the primary key of the database record.
  • The full display name of the municipality. This appears in selection lists displayed to users.
  • A Delete button to delete the municipality.
  • A Location button which displays the associated Location record.
  • A Concessions button to open the dialog for editing the list of concessions into which the township is divided for the purpose of describing property locations.

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 Township button adds a new row at the bottom of the table, permitting you to add a new town, village, or township to the list of administrative municipalities in the county.

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