Roger, It may seem that no one is willing to give you a straight answer, but having been on this list for several years, it's TRUE that each person likes to enter their census information different ways.
You can add an event to an individual called "Census" and transcribe the information into Notes on the event. Or you can just leave the Notes on the event blank and add the image of the census page (look for the picture icon). OR you can add the particular census as a Master source and cite it on the Event... having added the image of the census page to the Master source. At this point, however, you would need to know if you want one Master source for every census page you use (extreme "splitter" in this list's lingo) or if you would like to have (say) one Master source for every state/year combination (very much "lumper"). The more you "lump" census pages into a singe Master source, the more likely you will attach the image of a single census page to the CITATION, rather than the Master source. That said, there are two "clipboards" you can use to speed data entry... say, if you have a census entry for an entire family and want to enter it as an event for parents and children. You can set up a source clipboard with the citation information you want to be on each entry, and (I've just recently become acquainted with) there's an event clipboard, so you can just copy the event from the father to each of the other members of the household. In fact, you can set up the entire event with source cited and copy the whole shebang to each individual. (I'm sure someone here will correct me if I've misstated that, but I did do that last week with a family reunion event.) Now, that's not a click-by-click instruction manual, but that would depend on how you want to record your data. My recommendation is to try out a few ways to store the image (event or master source or source citation) with just one census record and a few individuals, then test out the reports or screens you are going to be using the most to see if you get the output you want. Once you settle on how the data needs to be stored to give you your output, then we can surely help you speed up the entry of that data. I haven't watched the webinar from this past week yet, but it's getting rave reviews. I think I am afraid it will show me that maybe I should be handling my census records differently, and now I just don't want to go through the changes! ;) Also, I think there are instructions in the archives about the source and event clipboards... and in the Legacy Help. Good luck! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, September 10, 2011 11:30:20 AM Subject: Re[LegacyUG] How to enter census data First, thanks for the very rapid replies. I'm 73, I guess a younger person might say, this groups rocks. <snip> But, can anyone tell me what to type, what to click, to place a copy of a U.S. census record into my Legacy records on my computer. Telling me to save it as a .jpeg, .txt, .html etc doesn't answer my dumb question. I want to be able to view the census records on my Legacy files with as few blanks filled in, as few clicks clicked, as possible. Once I do it, it's easy. I need the road map to get it done the first time...go here, highlight this, click on this, click on that, hit save to etc. I have a very good memory for things I've done. The problem is getting there and doing it the first time. Thanks Roger History really is my thing http://www.n4zc.com/ourstate for anyone that wants to know my history interests 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
