I'm sorry I missed that, but let me ask you something. How would you do reporting or have a list of all residences or occupations if you put everything under the census as an event? Jerry
Dave Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >For many years, I used the residence and occupation events to capture census >information. After watching Geoff's "Adding a Census Record", I began to >experiment with his method and I fell in love with it. Perhaps it is the >transcription that makes the most difference and the method to store images of >the census records. In any case, I am in the process of deleting occupation >events and converting residence events to census events. I just makes so much >more sense to me now that I understand it. > >For what it's worth. . . > >dave > >David L. Johnson > >"Happiness is a CHOICE" > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jerry [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 4:41 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LegacyUG] CENSUS: Event or Source ? > >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. People did not attend any census >meeting about themselves or conduct a census about themselves. >Therefore, there is another school of thought on this and that is to use >the census as a SOURCE and not as an EVENT. But, again, Legacy will >let you do it either way - just making sure the other school of thought is not >lost on this.... > >Jerry in Michigan / http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org > >On 11/05/2011 05:33 PM, Wendy Howard wrote: >> Hi Bruce, >> >>> I am puzzling on where to put Census (or Residence) Events for a couple. >>> It is clear that a single person in a Census would have the Census as >>> an Individual Event. But where you others put a Census Event for a >>> couple? Individual? Marriage? Both? >> This is something that can be done in a variety of ways (as you've >> already noticed) and the one that is "right" is the one that you like >> and suits your needs. What is right for one person may not be right >> for another, so consider your options, and how you'd like the entries >> to appear in your reports. >> >> My method is to have a census event for each person. I put a >> transcript of the census entry for the entire household in the source >> (in the Text/Comments field of the Source Detail, and check the box to >> include it in reports), so when I create a report where more than one >> person in that household appears, that transcript appears only once. >> >> I've edited the sentence structure for census events so that when all >> fields are filled it reads: >> >> [HeShe] appeared on the census [onDate] [inPlace] as a [Desc]. >> [Notes][Sources] >> >> The [Desc] field is where I put their age and occupation, such as >> "3-year-old", or "22-year-old Ironstone Miner" - without the quotes >> I've shown here to distinguish the field contents. >> >> These two examples, taken from my great-great-grandfather William >> Boynton IRELAND, come out reading: >> >> "He appeared on the census in 1851 in Langtoft, Yorkshire, England as >> a 3-year-old", and "He appeared on the census in 1871 in Rosedale West >> Side, Lastingham, Yorkshire, England as a 22-year-old Ironstone Miner" >> >> ... each sentence followed by a superscript number referring to the >> source information, where a transcript of the household can be seen. >> When he was three, William had no occupation ascribed to him in the >> census, so I don't mention any. >> >> With the [Desc] field at the end of the sentence, I can add in any >> other peculiarities of the census entry that I want to mention, or I >> can use the Notes field, as I feel the need. >> >> This suits me. I have developed it over the years, mainly from >> reading of other people's examples on this list. >> >> It might sound like a lot of work, but I use the Event Clipboard, once >> I've set up the first person, and edit the individual details for each >> subsequent person after copying the clipboard to a new event for them. >> The source information is carried along in this clipboard, so you only >> have to do the bulk of the work once. >> >> Hope this helps. :-) >> >> 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 > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4598 - Release Date: 11/05/11 > > > >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). 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