From: Kathy Meyer Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Census event vs source
I haven't worked on my family history much over the last couple of years, at least not enough to remember the most useful way to record some things, so I apologize up front if this is too basic - but there are always new users out there right? :-) I'm finding things I sourced very poorly 'back when I started' (haha!) Somewhere along the line I did start to use sources and events more fully and I like creating the Census event and including ALL of the details in the event notes (BTW - I L.O.V.E. the event sharing option that I just learned to use) I include the census page image in the Media portion of the event itself. Prior to using Events for that, I simply "sourced' entries, like birth, name, etc. individually with the Census SOURCE so I would know exactly where I got that information, which makes lots of sense to me; otherwise, if I got the birth year (for instance) from the 1920 census, I would have to guess that I got it from the Census EVENT and then go check it. So I know I need to have that SOURCE with the census information for each field that it applies to. Soooo.....right now, as I'm going through these old ones, I am doing BOTH. I'm creating the Census EVENT and then adding the Census SOURCE to the event itself (otherwise it wouldn't have all the nitty gritty source details about where it was found etc) and then copying that source to the clipboard and adding it to the applicable fields, which is seems like too much but also seems necessary so that I know where information came from. If I were creating an individual from scratch, it would be easier because I could attach the source to all the fields I guess. And I don't mind the extra work itself, I just feel like I may be putting too much in for the sake of reports and such. If I ever get everything cleaned up well enough, I do want to turn it into book format to share. Believe it or not, I actually have a family member who does NOT own a computer. Sorry for the length of this; I would love to get your suggestions. thanks! Kathy Kathy, Like you I’ve had to have a couple of years off, however whilst I have always used censuses as a source, I am continuing to use this method for the reasons which you describe so well. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
