I seem to have a method that is different from all the others messageing. I have used it for years. I don't use sourcewriter. Each household is a different source. I start each record as an event with year/date/place, which gives me a quick list of where the person lived over the years.
In the source, I include: year, abbrev for country (or state if it is a state census), name of head of household, address, description (ED, page, line, household as appropriate). This gives me a quick glance at who the person lived with over the years. In the detail for the person, I copy and paste the info from Ancestry (the lines below the image), and add other data that isn't indexed. For the ones from Find My Past I use their index line. My earlier census work was all done from microfilm back when there wasn't any online. Now I use Ancestry for most of my census work. When I have an old record from microfilm, my source description is sufficient to find it by browsing on Ancestry if the index doesn't work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shirley York Anderson [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~syafam/ http://myfamilybrickwalls.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: kinhunter25 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, September 7, 2012 8:35:15 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records Lumpers, how do you lump your census records? ________________________________ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 74 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC? Try free scan! 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
