I usually join the two pages into one image and give it one source. Country/State/County (however that works for your country), year...
There's a splitting of hairs that can go on here that I'm not sure is worth pursuing. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 8/9/2012 1:57 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 9:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing UK Census > > On 08/08/2012 22:46, Terry L. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was about to add a UK Census to the sources, when I noticed the the >> family is split between 2 pages. Fist page starts with the head and a >> couple of children, and the secon page has the rest of the family. Do I >> create 2 separate sorces for this? > > Your question implies that you have one Master Source for every single > household in a Census. This is OK if it works for you, but not what > most of us would recommend. > > I have one Master Source for each country each year (England 1841, Wales > 1841, Scotland 1841 etc) and all the specifics go into the Source > Details. I just enter 5& 6 into the Page field. > > It sometimes happens that a family is split between 2 pages which are 2 > consecutive folios. In those case I enter 5& 6 into the Page field and > 123& 124 into the Folio field, but I then use Override to change the > wording to "folio 123, page 5& folio 124, page 6." > > Incidentally, I don't enter each person's name in the ID of Person field > unless the household includes only 1 person. I write "household of Joe > Bloggs" so the citation is identical for everyone in the household. > > 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
