I am one of those who does not agree with creating census events, so I would not use a postcard event. I believe that the event is related to the information you extract or deduce from the piece of evidence such as the census or postcard, making them sources. The most obvious would be the address, making it a residence event on the reasonable assumption that the recipient lived at the address at the time of the postmark on the card just as the date of a census is evidence of residence at that time. Other events would depend on the content of the postcard. You might have a line saying ' sorry to tell you that your aunt Edith passed away last Thursday' , making it evidence of a death event, 'we went to her funeral on Sunday', making it evidence of a burial event. It really depends on how much you can reliably extract from the information it contains. My point is that the postcard can be a source for many different events, just as a census would give information on residence , occupation , disabilities, family ages , relationships, etc. I don't see families living their lives according to events like receiving a postcard or filling in a census questionaire, people do not sit around saying , ' do you remember the night of the 1911 census ? , what fun we had answering those silly questions' Whereas , they might well say ' do you remember that old house Grandad had on Elm Street , when was that ?' So I see the census or a postcard as a master source. Because the master source name is freeform and Legacy does not use it for any form of control I try to categorise my sources in a way relevant to me and also make use of the alphameric sorting Legacy does. So I might have a source 'Census 1841 of England & Wales - transcription by Ancestry' or 'Census 1851 of England & Wales via Genes Reunited' so that in the master source list the sources appear in a logical order , all censuses together, all similar decades, all similar areas, etc. Remember this is quite distinct from the master source template used to create the source ( if you are using sourcewriter) where Legacy uses the categories you select to control the fields which appear. So you can create a master source list that appears in a manner relevant to you while still creating the templates in a way relevant to Legacy. In my scheme I would have a general category of 'Genealogical Research' which covered things like letters, emails, postcards, forums, conversations, etc. So my master source might be named 'Genealogical Research - Postcards from Mabel Jones' , and I would use detail sources to split those of different dates. But the templates could be 'Letters > Personal correspondence' or 'Artifacts > Privately held' , depending on which you felt was better suited. In the end it is very much a matter of personal choice but it does help to get different views on how you can organise your information.
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