What happens then when you find another family in the 1930 census?
Don't you run the risk of having the details from the first source
overwrite those of the second?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Elizabeth Richardson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I have absolutely *major* census clean-up to do - a 5,000 person
database and not one census cited well enough for another person
to locate the original. The ease of citing sources in Legacy is
one of the things I like best about it. I watched Geoff's video on
sources, and, although I do not cite my federal census the way he
does, I think I've got it about right.
_Source List Name_ - Census 1930 Census
_Author_ - United States of America, Bureau of the Census
_Title_ - 1930 United States Federal Census
_Publication Facts_ - Ancestry.com <http://Ancestry.com>.
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.,
2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the
Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington,
D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,
2,667 rolls.
In my detail for things like name, birth, marriage info, I add the
location and ED, Sheet, or, in the case of the census event
itself, just the ED, Sheet. The detail information displays at the
end of the publication information.
On Geoff's video, he suggested going to online libraries or other
repositories and copying and pasting the citation information
given for any of your sources for which you may not have copied
everything you should have.
I don't think we should be so afraid we might have a period,
comma, or date in the wrong place that it should keep us from
continuing our work. The primary purpose of citing sources is so
that another person will be able to duplicate your work if
necessary. Elizabeth Shown Mills may be the final word on the
subject, but she shouldn't keep you from citing a source out of
fear you'll have something just not quite right.
Elizabeth
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Janis Gilmore <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
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*Sent:* Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:53 AM
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] census clean-up
I have some serious census sourcing clean-up that needs to be
done, to bring them into conformity with the Mills templates.
I had done a great deal of it prior to hearing that Legacy 7
will offer better Mills sourcing capabilities. I have been
putting the census clean-up on the back burner, so to speak,
for some time now as I wait for the new version.
I am wondering if I should just abandon the wait, and forge
ahead? If I had some idea of what the changes will entail, I
could make a better decision on this.
Am curious if others find themselves in the same limbo, and
what you have decided to do?
Janis Walker Gilmore
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