Thanks for explaining, Wendy. I started using computers long before I did genealogy, since the 1970s. I can't find fault with what works for you - I just think ultra-analytically - like a computer or dictionary, I guess. You perhaps think more like an historian. Jerry
Wendy Howard <[email protected]> wrote: >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 > > 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
