Jenny I was interested in the way you enter census data. I have been entering the whole data into each person file under the appropriate census and so of course there is a lot of duplication.
I'm looking for a way to make a report more readable as at the moment my census events in the report run one after the other eg 1871, 1881, 1891, with each being the description field then a list of everyone in the house including name, age, place born, occupation. Of course showing this once is ok but if there is a wife, husband and 6 children all that data appears 8 times. In the way you enter it in the notes field would you then enter all that information again under Jane Doe and each of their children? Of course I can go through at the end and edit out duplication but I'm wondering if your way makes it more interesting to read. Thanks - June -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf Of James & Judith Novinger via LegacyUserGroup Sent: Friday, 23 August 2019 7:19 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Cc: James & Judith Novinger <ltng...@ptd.net> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a narrative event Jenny, Thanks for the help. I'll have to play with your method a little to see if it comes closer to what I had in mind than my original method. JIM -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 6:58 PM To: James & Judith Novinger via LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding a narrative event On 21/08/2019 19:45, James & Judith Novinger via LegacyUserGroup wrote: > You said that your method is not the same as mine. How do you include > such narrative information? I use the Description field to include all the information about each person. Mostly I am working with UK Censuses, so a Desc field might read "Joe Bloggs; head of household; married; aged 42; born in Anytown, Someshire; General Labourer (employed)". For a woman in the 1911 Census, the Desc field might read "Fanny Adams; wife; currently married for 12 years with 3 living children & 1 deceased; aged 33; born in Anytown, Someshire." In both cases I then use the Notes field to list all the people in the household, eg "The household comprised Joe Bloggs 123, his wife Jane Doe 56, their son Fred Bloggs 961, visitor Tom Brown, a Domestic Servant and 2 Boarders." The numbers are the RINs which I always include because it makes it very easy to distinguish the right person among several with the same name and people who have any entry in my tree have their names in bold. This is not a perfect system because it means a lot of duplicated information if I build a Report which includes Event Notes, but I would edit out the duplication if sending someone such a report. It's very rare that I have to! -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
