Hi Susan and Mary,
I do both.
I enter a census event for every person I find in a census. This is the best way I can quickly check if I've found an individual in every likely census.
I enter a household transcription in the Event Notes for the head of household only. I add an event note for other members of the household only if there is something unexpected about their entry - name, age ...
I use the Description field to enter the head of household and have adapted the Event Sentence Definitions to match my use of the fields. This is for UK Censuses.
I enter a full household transcription with additional transcription of all the place headers in the Source Detail Text with the official reference in the Source Detail. I use the same Census source as the source for everything I've learnt from the census for that household - and for some things I've had confirmed. Provided you don't change any of the source detail, the source only prints once in reports.
Although I don't want the reports overwhelmed with repeating census detail, I do want access to the full census transcription at the click of a button.
Sometimes I make the Census Event globally private and don't print it with a report - but the census information is still in the report as it will be the source for something else - eg birth year and place.
There is more in the archives on how people enter census data.
Cheers, Cathy
At 23:57 20/05/2005, you wrote:
Mary, I hadn't used any training cds, so I entered transcriptions in source citation and details. The downfall that I can see, since I have been experimenting with it, is that when entered as a source detail it doesn't show up in the chronology view or report. I can see the benefit of entering it as an event, and still citing the source with page, film # etc. I look forward to other comments about it, since I am fairly new to this list. Susan
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