On 07/12/2012 01:56, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > 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.
Personally, I have a Census Event, too, but I don't see it as a problem to use a Census as a Source for a Residence/Address Event for those who want to. With many Residence/Address Events you cannot be sure how long the person was actually in that place or at that address, you can only say "On <date> his address was ..." or "On <date> he was living in ..." or something similar. -- 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
