I'm curious as to UK practices. Is there a person in UK genealogy similar to Mills; or a licensing body of some sort; or something on the level of the New England Genealogical Society? I'm not saying these are "better" but just wondering on the state of "organizational" differences.
----- Original Message ---- From: ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2008 4:11:57 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7 Jenny, Notwithstanding the "Goddess of Sourcing" I am carrying on as before. But then I never thought her alledged "standards" would fit the UK. I think this is one of those times when we just leave our American friends to it. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:17:17 +0100 > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7 > > > I would be interested to know what people think of the new SourceWriter > in relation to non-US Censuses. > > The vast majority of my Censuses are England and Wales and I don't find > the new fields in Source Details match up terribly well with what I want > to include. > > The given fields are as follows: > > Collection or Database > Jurisdiction County > Page > Dwelling No > Family > Column > > Collection or Database seems superfluous and I am happy to ignore it. > Jurisdiction County is ok, but what about Civil Parish and/or > Registration District and/or Sub-Registration District and/or > Enumeration District? Page is good. Rather then Dwelling No or Family, > in England and Wales we have a Household Schedule No. This could be > entered in one of those fields, but the words "Dwell" and "Fam" are > included in the Citation if those fields are used. Column is not > relevant. > > Then there are the Class, Piece and Folio numbers which are very > important finding aids for any English or Welsh Census entry. My "old" > way of entering Source Details for a Census was to enter, for example, > HO107-2489-486-4, which is the full Class-Piece-Folio- Page reference. > I am now entering that reference in the Page field, so in the Citation > it reads "p HO107-2489-486-4" which I can live with. > > I was not in the habit of including the County, CP, RD, ED or Household > No and I could carry on not doing so, but I wonder what others do, > especially now that I see what the Goddess of Sourcing expects! > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > _________________________________________________________________ Great deals on almost anything at eBay.co.uk. Search, bid, find and win on eBay today! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000004ukm/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
