Shirley, I do enter the Census as a marriage event when the couple is married & appear together. However, I also enter the Census event for each child enumerated, which I think covers some of the instances Jenny describes. Further, I do not enter the way Geoff teaches in the Legacy training. I like to have more descriptive Notes on the event. And that would be where I would note "Their youngest two children were staying with her parents in London, so were not enumerated here." -- and enter the London census event on each of the 2 children.
For an individual, then, they will have 2-3 census events themselves, then maybe several with their spouse, then maybe a few as a widow/widower. I tend to research a couple or family, rather than an individual. It works for me for now. --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: Shirley Richardson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Events-Marriage or Head of Houdehold Thank you Jenny, My thoughts exactly. I just wanted confirmation that I wasn't missing something and might regret it later. Kind Regards Shirley NZ ----- Original Message ----- >From: Jenny M Benson >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:14 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Events-Marriage or Head of Houdehold > >On 23/09/2013 23:51, Shirley Richardson wrote: >> I would appreciate, from those more experienced, the pros and cons >> of entering Census events in the marriage record. >> I have read through the archives and still have no clear conclusion. eg >> what if the husband/wife dies or is no longer living with the family. > >I very soon came to the conclusion that there were far more cons than >pros concerning entering Census Events as Marriage Events. > >You are going to have Census Events popping up all over the place: one >or other partner being away from home on a Census night, children >staying with relatives or growing up and later growing up and moving >away. I much prefer to have all one person's Events being kept with >that one person. > >I keep Marriage Events for events which relate strictly to the Marriage >- Announcements in the Press, Banns, Wedding Parties, etc. > >-- >Jenny M Benson ><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
