I would change it to "He WAS workING as a Brewer on 03 Apr 1881" on this one only, or create a second occupations with this statement. Rich in LA CA --- Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > CHRISTOPHER HUNT wrote > >1 For occupations having recorded the full census > date the wording > >comes out rather unwieldy in reports e.g. "He > worked as a Brewer on 03 > >Apr 1881" Obviously you cannot deduce that he was > actually working on > >the census date. Would it be better to just enter > the year? > > > >2 I am working with English census returns. Pupils > are recorded as > >scholars and again I have used the occupation event > to record this fact > >but "working as a Scholar" in a report doesn't > sound correct. Would an > >overiding comment such as "He was described as a > scholar in the 1881 > >Census" sound better. > > I don't record the Occupations separately to the > Census Event, but where > someone's Occupation is recorded on, say, a Marriage > Certificate, my > sentence would read something like "Occupation: On > <date> his > occupation was given as <Occupation> on the Marriage > Certificate of his > daughter Jane Smith." > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > 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/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
