Ron I thought Mrs Mills was an authority - on the honky-tonk piano! But this one must be from Yorkshire EE Bah Gum.
She obviously knew little about UK censuses as she apparently has templates for both England and Wales - they were identical and part of the same census. But I didn't see mention of Scotland, Ireland, Channel Islands etc. How many Australian censuses have survived - I thought they were all deliberately destroyed as part of privacy rules. As you say - let's just leave our American friends to their (expensive) book Jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: 09 June 2008 14:40 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7 Kirsten, With no disrespect to Mrs Mills, she is not regarded as an authority over here. Nevertheless it will be interesting to see how she interprets our individualistic/historic way of working. 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/ _____________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Non-US Censuses in v7 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:25:17 -0700 > > Ron and Jenny: > > Mills' book does cover census formats for Australia, Canada, England, > France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Wales. I suspect that there just > wasn't time to develop templates for all of these without further delaying > the release date, but that we could hope for future additions in Legacy. > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ronald > ferguson > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:12 AM > To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com > 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 >> _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000002ukm/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 No virus found in this incoming message. 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