I agree with Chris, especially if your ancestors have non Anglo-Saxon/Celtic names. Family Search is generally better than the others. I think their staff are better trained at indexing names, including foreign ones.
John From: Chris Hill Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 7:15 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Hi I think the best way to do this type of search is directly in their website, and not through a search from Legacy. Doing it yourself means that you have control on the search and can work through the records that are found. The same technique works against any of the websites that have access to census records - Ancestry, FindMyPast, MyHeritage etc. - but Family Search has the benefit of being free. The risk with an automatic search is that it is dependent on the data that you have in Legacy, which might not relate to the way that the census records are written or indexed, so that you do not find the records that you are looking for. For an example, I was tracing a family in Cornwall and found 14 different versions of the family surname across census and BMD records. Doing it manually give you the option to control these searches. Regards Chris >From my Motorola G6+ On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 21:44 Steve Ostheimer via LegacyUserGroup, <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote: Long time Family tree user and switched to Legacy 9 last year and really like it better than Family tree. I do struggle with searching census records with legacy 9 and family search. What is the best way to do the research. Steve Ostheimer -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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