Ron, Must be our common background, that we agree on so much :-)
I'd question whether the Census had any effect on an ancestor. One or two of mine (and the wife's) seem to have made it a point of honour, to make it as difficult as possible, for their descendants to find traces of them. Sue certainly has a grandfather who disappears about March every 10 years or so. And no. He wasn't inside. I'm still at a loss to know where he was in 1901! Albert SHERMAN. Where are you! > Mike, > > I very much agree with your interpretation of the differences between an > Event, Fact and Source, although I am not dogmatic about it! (I'm not > suggesting that you are BTW.) > > Whilst I agree that Residence at a place is a Fact, the act moving into that > place would be an Event. The Source for the former may be a census and for > the latter a diary. I do understand why some people say that a census is an > Event, after all it is something that happened, but I would argue that > because it was not initiated by, say, an ancestor, nor had any effect on > that ancestor then it is only a source. The ancestor's only contribution was > supplying the information - I will not enter the debate as to whether the > census, or ancestor, is the actual source! > > In other words, when it comes to deciding between Events/Facts I > differentiate between something the ancestor does, and something which > records what s/he did. > > To me though, the most important thing is to be consistent in one's > interpretation, otherwise the reader will be confused by what is actually > intended. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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
