re: census events i am recording british census events 1871,1881,1891 and 1901 and trying to decide how to record them
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I use a slightly different approach, using the Source feature. I have one Master source for each census, so one for 1881, one for 1891 etc. Then I use the source citation detail to record the actual PRO ref and the detail notes tab to record the address. Many people put a copy of the entire census record in the notes but this tends to lots of repetition in reports as it gets repeated for each person. Following recent (and excellent) advice here I now use the Source clipboard to note this citation and then paste it for each person's entry, so they all get the PRO Ref and address.
I make sure that there is at least one thing about each individual in the census record that can be sourced - it might be their name if this is the first time I've come across them, and/or their occupation at the time of the census, or just that they appeared in the census. It might be several things but as a matter of preference I don't use the Census event unless I'm stuck for something to tie the citation to.
It works for me as an approach and makes it possible to reconstruct the census entries in retrospect from Legacy without lots of extra entries that add no additional information to the history I am recording.
Hope this helps - as I say, it works for me.
regards
Rgemini
(aka Roy Ayres, Eltham, UK)
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