Thanks to all for your suggestions and questions on using census data in Legacy. I had not experimented with Firefox or Chrome to see how they handle the copy and paste into Legacy, and the comments on that may be very helpful.
One comment that I need to make is that I normally put my census data in events, not in notes or sources. Our original source entries in the first genealogy programs available went in the Notes section, the only place available for them. Many are still there. When the ability to put sources in the Source section became available in newer programs, I put most of the new entries there. I use the option to print sources at the end of "books", which means people must look there to find sources. I find that awkward. Once Legacy added the option to put in events that print with the individuals data, and then added the ability to copy the event to the clipboard, I started putting census and other "events" there. Bill Boswell asked: " Do you create the top part for each household member or just the head of household?" I edit the census data for the first person I work on in the family, and then copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the next family or household members event. For each person, I usually edit the data applicable to them, which is at least the first line, so it is readable while looking at the list of events for that person. This way, I can tell their age in each census, where they lived, and the state where they were born without opening any event. Sometimes the list of events shows the women "losing years" as they age, sometimes it indicates the person giving the info did not really know when or where their fellow household member was born, and even what their name was <G>. Normally the portion of the census data for each person, beginning with the list of people in the household and the source info, will not change after creating the record for the first person I work on in the household. Some Ancestry census records copy and paste differently with IE depending on the census year and even where I start and stop the "highlighting" before pressing "Control-C". Whenever it gets too messy, I paste into Notepad, and then copy and paste that into the Legacy Event. A few times, on some web pages, I have copied a web page and pasted it into my trial version of Word or Open Office, saved it as a plain text (.txt) file, and then opened the plain text file and copied and pasted that into Legacy. That can save the basic format and avoid a lot of editing time with some web pages. If anyone wants to see a jpg copy of how my lists of events look, write to me at [email protected] and I can send you a "screen save" jpg of what I see when looking at the "Individuals Information" screen in Legacy. Jay Ingalls 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
