Hi Bill, I keep my research notes under ‘Research Notes’ and in (all?) the reports options you can elect not to include these notes. Or put [[brackets]] around the material you don’t want to include.
Ancestry does change the ‘header’ line. Sometimes the page numbers change as they update/correct information. Still, it is the description in my file. Others might use something like “Tolson – 1930 US Census”, or the method of your choosing. My image file is getting so big that I many times don’t store the image – something I will probably regret later. Another case of not having too much information. My transcription is a copy and paste direct to Legacy of the Ancestry info, along with a little editing – such as deleting common, unused, lines and (sometimes) adding the individual occupation at the end. Most of my research is in England where I find it easier to have a ‘common’ translation. The US census may have a lot of personal information for each individual so generalization becomes a problem. I may get lazy and just do the head of the household and copy it to the rest of the family. In the Tolson census example, below, I have copied in the family members and placed it under Household Members. This has made it a bit more general. I’m sure, if we could peek over the shoulder of our fellow LUGers, we would see a different method for most out there. I like to hear what others are doing and maybe I can find other ways of doing things. Regards, Bob A From: William Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 8:00 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Fixed Fonts, Destroyed Columns? I just worry about doing reports and having too many pages compared to condensing the information. I'm always looking for improvements because I'm not 100% satisfied with my way of doing it. I wish there was a nice template for entering all the information and let the program format it the way it should be. I know there's SourceWriter, but many of the fields are useless and when trying to find a citation the items I want to see are not first in that Detail column in Legacy under Sources. I thought about going back to just copying and pasting for each family member and only list their information. The problem I had with that years ago was when I wanted to see who was the child of somebody, I had to refer back to the image. For the past three months I have been downloading a lot of census records and transcribing every day. I can't imagine doing it the way you have it below even though I really like your way of doing it. It's a lot cleaner than my way and does have more information. If I just copy what Ancestry has, I'd have to compare what they have against the image because they have sloppy transcribers. For the Source Citation (Year: 1930; Census Place: Washington...), I use from the year to the page number as a file name along with the Head of Household's name for the images which is why I have it formatted that way. It is much easier to find images and see if I have any duplicates. I've noticed that when copying that citation information, Ancestry is not always consistent with what's on that line. The ED might be at the beginning or the end. The ED and sheet/page numbers are more important than the other information at least when I'm searching for other relatives that might live nearby. From: Bob Austen [mailto:rgaus...@telus.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 10:30 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Fixed Fonts, Destroyed Columns? Hi Bill, Jumping in here... I have never been sorry for having too much information… Like you, I am interested in how others do their census extracts, and we each find our own method. There is no ’right’ way – it’s what works for you. This is my transcription for Edward L Tolson: 1930 United States Federal Census - District of Columbia - Washington - Washington - District 356 – pg 15 of 71 Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll: 303; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 0356; Image: 94.0; FHL microfilm: 2340038. Name: Edward L Tolson Gender: Male Birth Year: abt 1887 Birthplace: District of Columbia Race: White Home in 1930: Washington, Washington, District of Columbia Map of Home: View Map Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Ada M Tolson Father's Birthplace: Maryland Mother's Birthplace: Maryland Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Edward L Tolson Washington, Washington, District of Columbia abt 1887 District of Columbia Head Draftsman, Patton Company Ada M Tolson Washington, Washington, District of Columbia abt 1889 District of Columbia Wife Edward L Tolson Washington, Washington, District of Columbia abt 1911 District of Columbia Son Dorothy E Tolson Washington, Washington, District of Columbia abt 1914 District of Columbia Daughter Leo B Middleton Washington, Washington, District of Columbia abt 1879 District of Columbia Lodger Patent Attorney Name Age Edward L Tolson 43 Ada M Tolson 41 Edward L Tolson 19 Dorothy E Tolson 16 Leo B Middleton 51 I save the image using the first line as the name, create a census Event, attach the image to the Event, and copy the transcription in the Event Notes. My ‘clutter’ comes from copying the transcription to the Research Notes as well (as I do for each census obtained). Then I can easily look at the information should a question as to the validity of my research. Bob A Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
