Also interesting, JL. I think you are just to the splitter side of center on the lumper-splitter continuum. ;)
What I've found interesting, too, reading between the lines, is we all have different ways of storing the data, regardless of our level of lumping/splitting. I store the image in the Legacy Pictures folder, when I have it. I attach the images at the master level (so I could have several pages for a county in a given census year). Examples: Cook County (Chicago), IL, or Pulaski County, KY--where nearly all my husband's mother's ancestors lived for years; he's probably related to everyone there. If I don't have an image, I type in the transcription at the master level, too. For some master sources, I could have several images/pages plus a few transcriptions. I can then see who all from my family tree were where in that Location at that time. (I'm not sure yet if Legacy's new census search tool could be used to replace how I do my "what's missing?" analysis... have only used it for 1940 US census.) What I see in this thread, and recognize for the first time (I can be slow on the up-take sometimes), is that some of you access the images completely outside of Legacy. JL, am I reading your post correctly? You use a Windows search to find the image you want for an individual? Does that mean you don't also link the images into your Legacy database? And for my clarification (Jenny?) - I know the image files are not stored *in* the Legacy database, but if they are linked into the database, I'm assuming the image files will be included in my backup (as long as I check the multi-media check box)... Is my assumption correct? One last question: If I have moved a census image into the Pictures folder, but I'm lagging behind at getting things (events, sources, citations) entered into Legacy, will that census image be included in my "end-of-day" back-up? Thanks, all!!! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: JLB <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, September 9, 2012 10:56:20 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records I don't know if this is what's called lumping or splitting. I do, as examples: Illinois, Mercer, Millerburg: 1870 U.S. Federal Census or England, Surrey, Clapham, St. James Parish: 1881 England Census The transcription goes into 'actual Source text' under Source Detail, as well as into the Event notes for each person in the census. If I'm interested in looking at the actual file, I type the person's name into Search on Windows7, and it appears in a nano-second. Keywords (in this case, people's names) have been previously embedded in all documents so the search results bring up a filtered list regardless of where the files are on my computer. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ <snip> 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
