Re: TMG witnesses on a census. I don't know the purpose in other countries,
but in the US this decennial enumeration is (supposedly) done for the
purpose of creating voting districts. A census doesn't create witnesses, it
enumerates individuals. Not one witness is listed on a US census.
Re: Census as a source or an event. I use both. I use it as the source for a
name, approximate date and place of birth, probable parents. But it is also
an event, in that I include things such as occupation, residence, value of
real estate and personal property in the notes of the census event. The last
thing I want is a listing like: He was a farmer in 1850, He was a farmer in
1860, He was a farmer in 1870, He was unoccupied in 1880. Neither do I want:
in 1850 he lived in District No. 96 Sullivan County Missouri; in 1860 he
lived in Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri; in 1870 he lived in Union Twp.,
Sullivan County, Missouri - especially when he never moved his entire life!
Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce McArthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Hi
This is my first ever posting to this list and I don't even use Legacy but
have always used TMG. I do however own Legacy V7 and I like the program
but it would be too much work to move from TMG. One of the reasons for
this is that, because of the way TMG handles witnesses, only the head of
household would be linked to the census in a gedcom file. Also I don't
like the way Legacy has unstructured addresses.
However getting back to the point I will say that I am a "lumper" and that
I just have a source for, for example the 1841 UK Census or the 1880 US
census and so on. In the citation goes the name of the head of house, the
place (not the address) and the reference number. I don't include anything
else because it will be in the database anyway e.g. street name etc. If I
didn't do this I could end up with thousands of sources - approaching 1000
families times 1841 through 1901 and soon 1911 is a lot of sources to name
and wade through. No thanks!
regards
Bruce McArthur
Newcastle upon Tyne
England
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