Jerry said: > I know a lot of people do treat the census as an EVENT in someone's life > and I guess a lot of the professional genealogists do this, but I'm > still puzzled by why? To me a census is a SOURCE of information to > collaborate events in a person's life - birth, marriage, etc. But I > never treat a census as an event.
I'm not a professional, so cannot speak for their practices. ;-) I guess that is a difference in recording style and what we use Legacy for, and something that each of us must work out for ourselves. Sure, from a census document I could record a residence event, an occupation event, and any number of other events depending on what was recorded at the time. The way I use Legacy is to record the information as I find it, not to create a file where I can print out a report and produce a life story. So I record census entries, newspaper reports, etc, as single events rather than as multiple events separating out what the contents of those sources are telling me. It works for me, which is what is important for my file on my computer. May not work for someone else, and that doesn't make it wrong. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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
