I do the same thing as Brian, basically, except I forgot I could use the events/facts clipboard to make it go faster--! (I probably started entering Census events before there was an event clipboard...?) For a family, I enter one census event for the couple, then a census event for the other household members.
So, for a given individual, I might have 3 census events as a child in his/her parent's household, then 3-4 census events on the marriage, then one or two more census events for the surviving spouse. Sometimes, too, a widow might be part of her son-in-law's household, for example. So far, this has been fine for my reporting purposes. One interesting point Mike (I think) reminded me of: He said you have to have Census events for the Census search feature to work... but then I was wondering if each spouse would show up with or without a census record in the Census search feature, based on the way I've entered census events...? Hmm... worth a test... --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 1:26 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Where are census events recorded. 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&db=brianlightfoot&id=I22921. <snip> 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
