Tony Rolfe wrote: > Thanks to all who have offered suggestions so far. I think I will > continue to be a lumper and make one source for each year and put the > State and County in the detail. > > A follow-up question for those who have a census event. Do you have the > same "Census" event for all censuses, or do you have different events > for each, e.g "1900 US Census", "1881 British Census"? > > At the moment, since I only have British censuses, I've just used one > census event and used the date field to distinguish between them. I'm > wondering whether it is worth having one "US Census" event or whether > the location will be enough? > I have Events named "England Census", "Wales Census", "United States Census" and so on, with the Enumeration Date in the Date field and the full location (including Country) in the Location field. For consistency, all my locations include the Country, but I drop it for locations within the UK in the Short Location Name.
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