Maybe I'm a purist at heart but I don't use a census to establish residency, thus I stay away from entering a Residence Event. I can't remember exactly how the UK or other countries handle their census but in the US it has been a matter of where you slept on the night of April / June 1st, etc. Thus if your family was off visiting the grandparents two hundred miles away and slept there on the designated day of census, you could inadvertently being showing them as a resident there. I merely call the event "Census", or "US Census", or "Michigan State Census". Granted, the census and the actual residence were usually one and the same but I continue to find more and more exceptions to this rule. Maybe my family was weird or something. I suppose a solution to avoiding misrepresenting such visitations as residency would be to put a note on the Residence Event. But why create such a misleading event in the first place. Just call it what it was - just a Census Event.
Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Australian Electoral Rolls Lavern, I use censuses as a source for Residence Events, so I have a Residence Event, Description: England Census, Date, and Location. In your case I would do the same, just replacing "English Census" with Electoral Roll (or Voter Registration) . --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Lavern Hall" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello all, > >I am hoping that someone can advice me >how to enter information on Legacy that I've found on the Australian >Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980. > > The information this database provides is name, sex, year, state, >district and subdistrict. So I'm thinking of the resource as proof of >residence, so I'd create a Residence Event as if I were using a City >Directory (USA). Maybe creating an event named Voter Registration is >more accurate. Advice? > >Thanks, >Lavern Hall > 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
