Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-18 Thread Michele Lewis
Message - From: Janis L Gilmore To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Good genealogical narrative can never be generated by your software. It requires writing and thinking

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-18 Thread Paula Ryburn
Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:25:39 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Ah so true!  It isn't all about

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-17 Thread Janis L Gilmore
...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Dede Holden
, September 11, 2009 3:56:15 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Alan, I'm not quite sure what you meant by you don't use the default Census event but instead use an event for each Census?   I use the default Census event, but the description, date, and place tailor

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
- Original Message From: Dede Holden deanbuc...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:55:00 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Paula, I primarily use the Family Group Report.  I've found that this helps me to see how my

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:07:06 -0700 From: paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Thank you for your answers and some background. When I picture the way some of you describe how you

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Mary Trogg
I've struggled to find a balance between dry facts and bringing the information to life and have come up with this labor intensive compromise. I enter all census data under one event; census. The description is the years I have for the individual. I add a copy to the picture gallery of the

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Cathy-0
! Cathy-0 -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:15:16 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Paula, You have nicely identified a basic question which arises when attempting to create a one size fits all database. As is quite well known, my main output is for Pedigree Webpages in which

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:18:33 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I've struggled to find a balance between dry facts and bringing the information to life and have come up with this labor intensive compromise. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Trogg wrote Finally, as I find facts, I add to a short biography to notes. It's more interesting to read that a family moved from one state to another because the wife was hopelessly homesick, than to read the family lived in Minnesota, moved to Illinois and then back to Minnesota. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread Kewsy
they are married. --Paula in Texas - Original Message From: Angela Gabbard gabba...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:33:26 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I enter my census as follows: Census

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-16 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
3:04:47 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Mary Trogg wrote Finally, as I find facts, I add to a short biography to notes. It's more interesting to read that a family moved from one state to another because the wife was hopelessly homesick, than to read the family lived

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-15 Thread Paula Ryburn
Dede, Which reports do you use the most? Thanks, --Paula in Texas - Original Message From: Dede Holden deanbuc...@gmail.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:56:15 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Alan, I'm not quite

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-15 Thread Paula Ryburn
Mark, Which reports do you use?  And do you include Notes? Thanks, --Paula in Texas - Original Message From: Mark Wilson dmwil...@dishmail.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:28:02 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-15 Thread Paula Ryburn
, --Paula in Texas - Original Message From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:01:57 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Here is what I do... Event:  1870 United Stated Federal Census

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-15 Thread Paula Ryburn
!! --Paula in Texas - Original Message From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:01:15 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Randolph Clark wrote Question: If you name the census image

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-15 Thread Paula Ryburn
...@sbcglobal.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:33:26 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I enter my census as follows: Census Description blank (I got started a long time ago not using this field and never have... not sure what my

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-14 Thread Mark Wilson
@legacyfamilytree.com mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-14 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mark Wilson wrote To see whether or not I have an image for a particular person, I look at my Census, US Federal events for that individual. If it has an associated image attached for that event, then there will be a + sign showing at the right side of the event line. I take it, then, that

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-12 Thread Roxanne
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 1:47 PM I have a Master Source for each U. S. census year, state and county. So the source would be called: Missouri, Howell - census 1900 (Ancestry

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Dede Holden
: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide.  What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Jenny M Benson
Alan Jones wrote 1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and find works best and why for the related event fields? -Description: -Date: -Place: -Notes: It has taken me ages to decide how to handle Censuses and I have changed my method a few times, but this is how

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread William H. Boswell
] -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Alan Jones Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Michele Lewis
Alan, I have answered all of your questions below Interesting so you don't use the default Census event but instead use an event for each Census? I had not thought about that. I guess that works better with the sentence structure and wording? I have a separate event for every federal

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Wilson
of death - paralysis, attending physcian - J. Maddox Michele - Original Message - From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Michele Lewis
Message - From: Mark Wilson dmwil...@dishmail.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information For my US Census events, I have created events named Census, US Federal, Census, US Federal Slave

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Randolph Clark
10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Jenny M Benson
Randolph Clark wrote Question: If you name the census image something other than the name of the primary person sought then how do you (easily) know whether you've found/saved that person's census location? I decided long ago that I needed a simple way of keeping track of what information or

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Angela Gabbard
. -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information Randolph Clark wrote Question: If you name

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Jones
Michaele, thanks for the clarification Michele Lewis wrote: Alan, I have answered all of your questions below Interesting so you don't use the default Census event but instead use an event for each Census? I had not thought about that. I guess that works better with the sentence

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-11 Thread Alan Jones
William H. Boswell wrote: This is how I've been doing mine. It would be nice if genealogy programs would provide a real template for enter the information. I haven't checked to see if Legacy has anything like that. William, I agree they have source templates it would be really nice to

[LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-10 Thread Alan Jones
I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really wanted to know more of is how to others document the

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-10 Thread Michele Lewis
Michele - Original Message - From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-10 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
. I am content with what I have. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Alan Jones a...@ajsquared.us To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:34:44 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document

Re: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information

2009-09-10 Thread Alan Jones
:34 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering US Census Information I have seen many post about how to document/source Census information and the different styles and to be honest I have not made up my mind and won't till I have really done enough to decide. What I have seen less discussion of and really