I haven't posted on this topic for some months - so here is how I
handle English Census information.
I have a Master source for each Census year for each way I access
that census. eg some images on Ancestry, some on film, some
transcriptions online, some CD or booklet indexes, ...
When I use a Master source for a particular household, I set it up on
the Source Clipboard with that household's detail so that I don't
change the source detail for each person. This way it only prints
once on reports however many times it is used. I put the official PRO
reference in Source Detail (eg RG12/2034 folio27 page4) and a
transcription of the census including full location detail in the
Source Detail Text. The census image, if available, can be added to
the Source Detail Picture but I generally don't.
I use that source to source everything I've learnt from that census
(or had confirmed from that census if my current information came
from family sources).
Sourcing in this way means that the full source information
(including the image if I've added it) are available at a click or
two from any relevant person. However many times I use the source, it
only prints once in reports because I don't change the source detail.
I use the Census as source for all information learnt from it - name,
birth, birthplace, occupation, residence
In Events I add a Census Event for each person. (This is quick and
easy to do as I use the Event Clipboard) I also add an Occupation
event for major people. I add a Residence Event for a mainline family
under Marriage events. Otherwise I let the Census Place speak for itself.
I add a transcript of the household in the Census Event Notes for the
head of household. For others I put the Head of household in the
Description box along with their relationship to the Head of
household (for 1851 census on) whether that be child or servant or boarder etc.
If they are a servant or boarder, I put the transcript in their
Census Event Notes, even if the head of household is in my database.
This means I have two main Census Event Sentences:
Where Date, Place are filled:
[FirstHeShe] was recorded on the British census of [Date] [inPlace]
as head of household.[Sources][CR][Notes]
Where all fields are filled:
[FirstHeShe] was recorded on the British census of [Date] [atPlace]
in the household of [Desc].[Sources][CR][Notes]
For the occasional times these sentences don't work very well, I use
a Sentence Override.
In the Census Event Notes for each person, I make a note only if
there is something different or unexpected in the census information
- like age or name. eg my Great Grandfather William Melville HARRIS
appears as Melville on one census. Another couple of ancestors are
consistently 2 years younger in the censuses than they were at
marriage and death.
A Census Event for each person means that Legacy shows you clearly at
a glance whether you have found someone in every relevant census.
This is a great bonus.
If you don't want to report all this Census information, you simply
go in and make the whole Census Event Private while you produce that
report. Then the Census data only shows up in the Sources for data
like birthplace and occupation.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 10:52 PM 30/03/2006, you wrote:
How do other users of Legacy enter the information from Census returns?
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