Thank you, Wendy. Seeing how other people do it helps a lot. Regards,
Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citing UK census using basic sourcing 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 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
