I've wondered about that same thing too, but decided to just keep all of family together in the same source-citation. I had tried this early on and then found that just having the one line for each family member didn't show the entire list of family members. Having the family members split up with only the individual's information became a problem when I was trying to figure out who was also attached to that family for that year. I didn't want to have to keep going back to the image. I prefer to keep the entire family together even if it will be duplicated several times.
Lately I've been unchecking the box in the source citations to exclude this text so it isn't repeated hundreds of times in a report. I might regret doing this later, but when I ran a report from FTM 2009 a few months ago each source-citation for all persons repeated the same census and other source-citation text hundreds of times. The report is almost 4,000 pages long because of that. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: GeoSci [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Add an Event "Census" to Everyone I have an event for each census (1880, 1900, 1910, etc) and include (in the description) The household headed by... and include everything for the head of the household. I then use the event clipboard to put it with the others in the family. Each is then a complete record (but I only had to enter it once). I have wondered if those other than the head of household should (maybe) have only their part of the citation for the whole family -- like "Shown as a student, age 14 in the household of John Smith." rather than the whole thing... Still thinking about tha one. Keith -- Find-A-Grave "County Keeper" for Schuylkill County, PA Keith A. McKain McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 Email: [email protected] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Heather Stovold <[email protected]> wrote: > I assign my Census sources to each piece of "data" that i get out of it. > > Say in the Census, I find this info.... > > Name:� John Brown > Sex: Male > Age: 50 > Marital Status: Single > > (etc.) > > I would make up my source record and copy it to the source clipboard (and I > would include that info to it.)��� I would then assign (or copy) that source > to the following fields > > Name�� (or Alt.Name if it didn't exactly match what I am using for the name) > Birth Date (or Alt Birth Date if it doesn't calculate to the year I am using > in the Birth Date) > > I would create a Marital Status event, put in Single (and the census year) - > and assign the census source > > I would also create a Residence event and include the source - and a Census > event and include the source. > > That way, I know when I am looking at a person, I know exactly where I got > each piece of information. > > The only "unspecified" places I have a source attached to are for my > immediate family - where I have a "Personal Knowledge" source (and for�the > family members that I have personally viewed�things like Birth Certificates, > etc - I source those specifics) > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > �� http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > �� http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > �� http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
