On 05/11/2011 20:40, Bruce Jones wrote: > 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?
Personally, I put all Census Events in as Individual Events. This is because I want to see them all in one place, not some here and some there. Imagine a situation where, over the years, a person is enumerated with his parents as a child, then perhaps as a lodger as a young person, then with his/her spouse in their own home, then as a visitor in someone else's home, then back to the marital home again but with a new spouse. Those entries would be in one person's Individual Events and 3 different sets of Marriage Events. And I do use Census Events, rather than splitting the information between Residence, Occupation etc because I think almost everything can be thought of as an Event or a Fact of someone's life. It's a fact that they were enumerated in a Census, it's a fact that they stated they were of such-and-such age and in such-and-such occupation. Happily, Legacy allows Census sheets to be used as the basis of an Event or as a series of separate Facts. I like to include *all* the information from the Census in the Event so that I can see at a glance all the changes in address/circumstance/age etc over the years. -- Jenny M Benson 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
