Bruce I have a different approach to Wendy's, it goes something like this…
If the Census is for an individual not with any family members, I put the Census Transcript in that person's General Notes. I then add an Event as either a Residence(if not working) or an Occupation (if working) together with a general Source for that particular Census (Say "UK 1871 Census") with a comment in the Source detail reading "See notes" [should probably read "see general notes"]. If the Person is in the Census as part of a Family, I place the Census Transcript in the Marriage notes of the Parents. I add a Residence / Occupation to each individual in the family with the appropriate Census source and a source details reading "see marriage notes" if they are the parents, "see marriage notes of parents" if they are the children and "see marriage notes of [brother/sister/son/daughter + name of said]" if they are related but not part of the immediate family. Production of reports with notes then clearly shows these details. The above process I developed when using Family Tree Maker and providing you use basic sources, transfers through gedcom without any problems. I try to make my process as independent of genealogy programs as possible. I use the census event only to show when I have tried to find it but have not found it e.g. Event: Census: Date [Census Year] : Description [Not Found or Required]. I use this to produce a list of Censuses Required using the search process. Once found, I remove the Census Event entirely, replacing it with either a Residence or Occupation. Alan From: Bruce Jones [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 November 2011 20:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Individual Events vs Marriage Events 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? 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
