Categorize from Minnesota to North Dakota

Question

Several of my ancestors emigrated from New Brunswick to Minnesota. But after a while they moved on to North Dakota.

How do i create an entry similar to the ”New Brunswick to Minnesota” from the ”Minnesota to North Dakota” move? I’ve looked at migration category help on down to level 5. No luck. I swear I’ve seen a smiles use but cannot find now - if it ever existed.

Thanks!

/s/jr

Answer 1

We don't generally use migrations from state to state  within the US (unless it's for USBH and "The Great Migration") as categories.

Comments

With all due respect, then why are stickers doing virtually the exact same thing? And for that matter, many US states are larger in size (geographic or population, pick one) than virtually every European nation. Isn’t that enough reason to track US Intranational travel?

Finally, Stickers and Categories should not have that kind of overlap - too confusing… What should I use? Hmm.

/s/jr

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Jerry, I don't know about stickers, but we're talking immigration here, ie going from one country to another.  The migration category structure is broken down into provinces/ states simply due to the fact that going from Canada to the USA is just too broad a category, people get lost in such.  They had to go through an immigration process of some sort, which is why they get categorized there.  Going from one state to another entails no such process, I have lived in 3 provinces in this country, never had to do an immigration process as it's all the same country.  It's a bio item.  Else they get the specific location categories for BMD.