Cathy, In this situation, I still use the head of household in the citation.
However, I add "he was a boarder in Joel DeBoard's house" in the Notes on
Michael Smith's census Event. I like the way that looks on the reports I run.
So maybe that is just personal preference.
--Paula
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Janis L Gilmore <rajan...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Cathy,
>
> I cite the head of household: "Joel F. DeBoard household."
>
> The exception is when it is someone of a different surname,
> boarding in the
> household, or a nephew in the household, etc. In which
> case, I cite it as
> "Joel F. DeBoard household, for Michael Smith, boarder."
>
> Janis Walker Gilmore
>
>
> On 6/25/09 1:59 AM, "Cathy Vallevieni" <cathyv...@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> > If I understand it correctly when citing a Census, the
> citation
> > includes the name of the person ("ID of Person" in
> Legacy) and that
> > means each family member's name would be listed
> separately for the
> > source assigned to them. Since each different
> citation shows up as a
> > separate source in the endnotes, if there's a family
> of 10, then
> > there would be 10 separate citations in the endnotes
> for that single
> > Census. This would add up for 3 or 4 or more
> Census' per family.
> >
> > Is it appropriate to just enter in the "ID of Person"
> field just the
> > head of household's name (i.e. John Smith Family) for
> all citations
> > of that Census rather than each individual's name when
> assigning that
> > Census to each family member listed on the Census?
> >
> > In other words for the 1850 Census for John Smith's
> family, instead
> > of listing Sally Smith on the Detail Source for her,
> Jim Smith on
> > his, John Smith on his, etc, would it be appropriate
> to list "John
> > Smith Family" as the "ID of Person" on the Detail
> Source for all
> > family members resulting in one citation in the
> endnotes?
> >
> > Cathy Vallevieni
> > Orange County, CA
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