Thanks Jenny and Ron for your viewpoints... --Jerry On 11/07/2011 04:35 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Jenny, > > I matters to me as I regularly search for individuals with the same name and > same occupations, or residence, in which case having Events makes life much > easier. Not so much for my Family file but for my One-Name Study. Where > there are a large number of people with same names one is frequently looking > for some commonality in order to search for duplicates. There other ways of > doing this but Find>Search>Detailed Search is, in my view the fastest. > > I am not suggesting that everybody, or, indeed, anybody should do it my way. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 9:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Events vs Marriage Events > > On 07/11/2011 18:38, Jerry wrote: >> Jenny, I asked a question about this, but so far no one responded. I >> understand better now why some of you use the census as an event (or >> better stated as a fact), but how does that affect getting a list of >> residences, occupations, etc.? If everything is lumped in together >> with events, would you still be able to get a report easily of all the >> occupations, residences and such? Just wondering how you do that... > No, with the Census Event "method" it is not so easy to extract just > information about Residences or Occupations as it would be if these were > in spewcific Events. This doesn't bother me, but I can quite appreciate > that this ability would be high priority for some people. >
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