Hi Jenny, I haven't found the ideal way (for me) to name the census event. I have stored the census images by year, say "1851 England Census", along with the Ancestry heading for the file (image) name, say "1851 England Census - Sussex - Ticehurst - District 2a - pg 12of25". I have gone back to using only "1851" as the event name, after switching to "1851 England Census - 30 March 1851". My reasoning, now, is it might be easier to search for the event if it was only named '1851'. I find it very easy to find the image and I have 848 images in my 1851 folder.
I make a transcript of the census information which includes my image name and the Source Citation used by Ancestry and have that in each individuals record... 1851 England Census - Sussex - Ticehurst - District 2a - pg 12of25 Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1639; Folio: 89; Page: 11; GSU roll: 193542. Thomas Barrow abt 1817 Goudhurst, Kent, England Head Ticehurst, Sussex Ag Lab Betsy Barrow abt 1818 Ticehurst, Sussex, England Wife Ticehurst, Sussex Harriott Barrow abt 1841 Ticehurst, Sussex, England Daughter Ticehurst, Sussex Scholar Robert Barrow abt 1847 Ticehurst, Sussex, England Son Ticehurst, Sussex Civil parish: Ticehurst Ecclesiastical parish: St Augustine County/Island: Sussex Country: England Street Address: Flimwell Registration district: Ticehurst Sub-registration district: Ticehurst ED, institution, or vessel: 2a Neighbors: Smith; Barrow; Osborne; Waters; Household schedule number: 44 Piece: 1639 Folio: 89 Page Number: 11 Household Members: Name Age Thomas Barrow 34 Betsy Barrow 33 Harriott Barrow 10 Robert Barrow 4 I have added the occupations, Street address, and neighbours. You can add a source (Ancestry.com). I include the image in the event and also keep this information in the individual's Research Notes for easy reference. I no longer worry about the bulk or size of the database. More info is better. I'm with Tim on this one - all the information is important. I probably won't change my method much, but it is good to hear how others handle it. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 9:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records On 08/09/2012 16:51, SHIRLEY ANDERSON wrote: > 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. You are definitely a "splitter", not a "lumper", then. Just to take the 1851 England Census alone I have 428 images, so that's probably about 400 households. Multiply that up through all the Censuses from 1841 to 1911, adding in Wales, Scotland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, not to mention USA, and I dread to think how many individual Sources that would make! It really doesn't make sense to me - all that extra typing and all that added bulk in the database for so much repetition. It doesn't make any difference whether you use SourceWriter or Basis Sourcing - SourceWriter is just a way of making sure your Sources are consistent and conform to a particular standard (not making any judgement about wheher than standard is "correct" or "necessary"). -- 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
