Re: [LegacyUG] Residence (not address) as an Event?

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:41:10 -0800

I break census data down, so that the main different census fields I have are: 

Event/Fact: Living
       Description: in, with, or near and names of people involved
           Date: Census year
               Location: Twp/PO, Co, State
Event/Fact:: Also living in household:
Descr: relation to head, name, age, (if a servant or other I also include color and occupation). I don't include sex unless it's not apparent from the given name) 
Event/Fact::Education:
Descr: literacy/illiteracy matters; whether attended school during year, etc.: 
Event/Fact::Occupation:
           Descr: whatever info is available in the census
Event/Fact::Property:
Descr: (depending on what's available from census) any of the following: Real & value, personal & value; slaves (sad to say) and sex, age, mulattor or black for each; whether owned or rented farm and/or house, value of house, wheher owned radio. 


Of course I also enter birth info from the census in the birth field and any 
marriage or death info that I can surmise into the respective fields.  A 
man's name disappears and his wife's appears as head as of household, and 
she's said to be a widow. If I already had the exact date of death I 
wouldn't bother wuth this.



(The most interesting occupation I've come across was for a woman (widow) 
c1870 who gave her occupation as "capitalist"!)



I like breaking the census info down because then it's easy to compare the 
status from one decade to the next.  And I like to know who's living with 
whom or near whom.



I think I don't include as many neighbors as genealogists advise, just 
because it's too time-consuming.  Though I do save copies of all pages from 
which I take info -- but I don't include the next page for example.



Of course I don't do this detail for everybody. Just closer relatives or 
those who for some reason intrigue me. But I try to be as inclusive as time 
permits.  For example if I had a distant relative who owned a lot of slaves, 
I wouldn't list them individually but I'd group them in some way -- whatever 
was most reveaing or provocative about the nature of his slaveholding 
practices.  (I did my thesis on opposition to slavery in Virginia from 
1831-1861 so I have a special interest in the whole issue.)


Pat


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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Residence (not address) as an Event?



The way I enter census data is to make the Event says 'Census', then the 
date and location in the Description/Place/Notes field.  You don't have to 
have Events print out as sentences.  You can also have them as a list in 
point form.  I believe printing a Location report involves the locations 
as they exist in the Master Location list.  Since all the locations 
entered in your database, in any appropriate location fields, are in 
there, it would automatically print them.  If you put the location of the 
census in the Desc/Places/Notes field, it will be included in your 
Location Report.


JLB
http://www3.telus.net/Jgen/

Barbara Ford wrote:

Thanks--there are probably 100 or so records I would have to change, but,

frankly, I'm fast. You're right about the wording being strange...I think 
I

know how to make it read better. As is, if I have a three-year-old in a
certain township, the report reads "He owned a residence at..."

The only reason I could think of to change them all would be for 
something I

might want to do with the Location field--for example, if I want to print
the locations at the end of a report, it would pull all those "residence"
locations, too, wouldn't it? That could be good or bad, I guess....

I'm thinking I will go ahead and change all (I'm making a big deal out of

this, because I'm trying to understand/clean up all the records that came 
in

from FTM when I imported, and hope I am confident on how to enter data
before I add any new records), and then try to change the wording.

Thanks,
Barbara

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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Residence (not address) as an Event?


Barbara,


There is nothing really wrong with that arrangement, although you may 
have
to change the sentence wording for it to read properly (having changed it 
on

mine I'm not sure what the default wording is!).

My own arrangement is:

Name: Residence
Description: census
Date: eg 1881
Location: Full Address

Details of the census are contained in the Source.

I don't know how many records you have but if it is quite a lot I'd be
sorely tempted to leave it providing it can be made to read OK.

Ron Ferguson


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Subject: [LegacyUG] Residence (not address) as an Event?
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:27:38 -0600


In Family Tree Maker, I used the Residence event as the place where I 
recorded census information. It came into Legacy like this: For example, 
I might have an event named Residence, and in the description it might 
say Hickory Township, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA. The date would be 
the year of the census, say 1850. The Location field is blank.



Should I have a different procedure--is that where the census 
information goes, or should I put it somewhere else? If I leave 
Residence as an Event, should I delete what is now in Description and 
put it in the Location field of the event?


Thanks,

Barbara





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