Here's one I set up and used for the 1861 census:
Master Source:
Source List Name: 1861 England Census
Type: Census/Tax
Author: Her Majesty's Government
Title: 1861 England Census
Publication Facts: Ancestry.com [database online]. Provo, Utah:
MyFamily.com, Inc, 2005
Then when I'm using it, the detail might look like this:
Detail Information: RG9/3624 Folio 67 Page 6
Text/Comments:
Robert IRELAND, Head, Mar, 48, Blacksmith, Yorkshire North Burton
Bessey IRELAND, Wife, Mar, 44, Blacksmith's wife, Yorkshire Bempton
Wm Boynton IRELAND, Son, 13, Scholar, Yorkshire Langtoft
Thos Lamplough IRELAND, Son, 10, Scholar, Yorkshire Langtoft
Robt Joseph IRELAND, Son, 8, Scholar, Yorkshire Langtoft
Amelia Ruth IRELAND, Dau, 5, , Yorkshire Burdale
To my way of thinking (which works for me, but may not for others), this
is adequate for anyone looking at my data to go and find that source for
themselves.
The census event itself is structured like this, if all fields contain data:
[HeShe] appeared on the census [onDate] [inPlace] as a [Desc].
[Notes][Sources]
So in a report for William Boynton IRELAND it will look like this:
He appeared on the census in 1861 in Burdale Tunnel Top Cottage,
Raisthorpe with Burdale, Yorkshire, England as a 13-year-old Scholar.[1]
His father's event reads:
He appeared on the census in 1861 in Burdale Tunnel Top Cottage,
Raisthorpe with Burdale, Yorkshire, England as a 48-year-old Blacksmith.[1]
When I'm entering a family's census information, I set up the first
person's event (complete with source information) and then copy it to
the Event Clipboard. Then for each subsequent person I paste the Event
Clipboard contents to a new event for that person, and change the
description field to reflect how that person was described in the census.
The one thing I would change if I were entering this information into my
database today would be to record the date I retrieved the information
from the web site - I'd put that alongside the page reference in the
Detail Information field.
I developed this method from reading other people's ideas in this
mailing list over the years.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy
Jennifer Crockett said the following on 21/07/2013 2:24 a.m.:
> Can some kind soul please give me examples of citing UK censuses using basic
> sources? In particular, those using images from Find My Past and Ancestry.
>
> At the moment I am trying to do 1901 from findmypast and I have all this
> information for the family of Woof Isaacs:
> 1901 Census 31 March 1901
> National Archives Reference: RG number 13, Piece 262, Folio 46, Page 1
> Registration District: London City
> Sub District: St Botolph
> Parish: St Botolph Without Aldgate
> Enum. Dstrict: 3
> Ecclesiastical District: St Botolph Without Aldgate
> Address: 3, North Block, St Botolph Without Aldgate
> County: London
>
> I would like to know how others cite it using basic sources - so what goes
> in the master source and what in the detail.
>
> I don't have a subscription to either findmypast or ancestry so I use my
> public library's library subscription.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jennifer
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