Jenny M Benson wrote: > Ron Ferguson wrote >> I *never* create Census Events for the simple reason that the Source >> would duplicate the Event. My Events comprise the information which I >> got from the census, eg. residence, occupation and maybe even name, >> date of birth etc. The census itself is only the source. > > On the other hand, I think one can argue (I would!) that "X was > enumerated in the nnnn Census of ..." is an Event/Fact and one could > even say it was a Fact (1) that "X gave the following information to > the Census Enumerator ..." and the Enumerator's Book is the Source > for that Event/Fact. > > (1) Using the word "Fact" in the sense that Legacy uses it, rather > than meaning an absolute and undeniable truth, knowing as we do that > Census Enumerators were prone to make errors, misread handwriting, > etc!
Yes Jenny, I did did pick the census quite deliberately, because there are definitely the two ways of looking at it. Both are, in my view, perfectly valid. Indeed, one could muddy the waters even further by suggesting that even the enumerator's book is only a record of what has been transcribed from a census form submitted to the household and completed by anyone who could write, or from verbal information given to the enumerator. The address and sex are, however, likely to be correct, the rest as we both know, can be a load of rubbish. This example does, however, serve to illustrate the differences between Sources and an Events. If I remember correctly "Fact" was only recently introduced into the Legacy 'definitions', certainly in the last 5 years following representations from those who moved from another program, prior to that they had simply been known as Events. After that little diversion, the important thing, I believe, is for each of us to decide which way round we would wish to define the Source and Event, but above all recognise that one cannot have a Source without an Event(/Fact), and vice versa. A Source must be a source for something and the knowledge of an Event(/Fact) must have come from somewhere. My main point was, of course, that they cannot be one and the same. As I said, I choose not to have a Census Event because, for me, there would be far too much duplication in the records. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ 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
