New to research. Have Eliz. Shown Mills Evidence! Book in hand. Have
listened to Geoff's CDs. Don't understand exactly what to enter as a Master
Source List Name when it comes to residences, as queried by Keith. Starting
with myself (I am part of a large family, so I could use this master source
for all my family), what do I put as the Source List Name -- the address?
Then the "Type", what do I put when it's only personal knowledge and no
records exist? (military moves, every 24 months!) That would make the
"Author" me or perhaps my parents giving me what they recall, right? No
"Title" exists, so do I leave that blank?
Just need a jump start, please, and I'm off and running.
Many thanks, Mary
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janis
Gilmore
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:48 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence Events
Keith,
Absolutely, you want to enter every residence event (and every other event)
possible. Then when you flip over to chronology view, you can easily see
where he was, and formulate a research plan based on that. (It is helpful in
chronology view, if you set the preference to show state, county, city -
rather than the other way around; all my folks are in the U.S., way back
before the Rev, so country isn't an issue for me, but if it is in your
family then you want country, state/province, county, city).
Janis
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 7:47 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence Events
Interesting idea - if I understand - it might happen that you have
MANY residence events for a single person. I lived in three places in
less that 1 year (just for an example). So if I found evidence for
each location - each would be a different residence event? I have
grandparents living in 5 different places over 60 years of census data
- resulting in 5 residence events?
Just thinking aloud...
Keith.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Elsie Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also do not use Census events. I list all items from a census to
appropriate events: name, residence, birth, occupation, education, real
estate, etc and use the census as a source. So if I see a residence for
1920, for example, I can easily see what the source is, whether it's a
census or directory or whatever. Each person on each census gets all items
of info entered. Perhaps I'm a little pedantic.
For what it's worth, I enter a residence event as:
Event: Residence
Desc: with his father in law at 232 Washington Ave. in
Date: Jan 1, 1920
Place: Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, USA
Then I source that event:
Master Source: US Federal Census
Detail: 1920 NY, Ulster, ED 64, sheet 4b, line 13
I copy the residence event with its source, and use it for each member of
the household. I use the line number of the head of the household for each
member. If I have used a relationship such as "with his father in law" I
change that to read "with her father" or for children, "with his/her
grandfather".
Elsie
----- Original Message ----- From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Finding placenames and associated family files
Ah, Cathy.
Now I understand why we have had similar discussions in the past. I do
not
use Census Events and *only* use censuses as Sources for other events eg
Residence, Name, Occupation etc etc.
Hence I have these events for *all* my individuals - if applicable.
Ron Ferguson
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