Others have already responded with various methods of handling this information. I take a “combined” approach in that I enter the information as a census event for the marriage and I add into the notes for the event a short summary of everybody included in that census record (easily done with a copy and paste from online index summaries). I then copy that event to the clipboard in Legacy and paste the same event into each individual but this time eliminating all the other names other that the person involved. I then add a parenthetical remark at the end of the notes such as “Living with wife and 6 children” or perhaps “Widowed and living with married son, XXX, and his family.” Those little parenthetical remarks have helped me at times track the timeline for certain persons who moved about quite a bit. A short example of this methodology can be seen at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brianlightfoot&id=I22921> &db=brianlightfoot&id=I22921.
In short, whatever method you choose that makes you happy and enables you to understand the information the easiest is the method that you should choose. But think about it long and hard because going back and trying to change thousands of entries is a monumental task. Brian in CA From: Shirley Richardson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Where are census events recorded. I have pondering whether census events are deemed to be marriage events, ie the whole family is recorded. Then also recorded as individual events. Would appreciate advice. Regards Shirley NZ 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
