Alan Jones wrote
1. In Legacy you have an event called Census. What others enter do and
find works best and why for the related event fields?
-Description:
-Date:
-Place:
-Notes:
It has taken me ages to decide how to handle Censuses and I have changed
my method a few times, but this is how I do it now. Firstly, I have
separate Census Events for the Censuses of each Country
In the Description field I enter the full details from each column of
the Census, so a typical entry might read "Joe Bloggs; head of
household; married; aged 36; born in Birkenhead, Cheshire; Farmer
employing 5 men and 2 boys." (There are additional fields in some
years. I add "lunatic" or "blind" or whatever if there is an entry in
that column.)
Date is the date of enumeration which is one specific date for England,
Scotland, Wales etc.
In Place I enter the full address of the household, or as much as is
given which may or may not include house number or name and street name.
In the Notes field I enter all the people in the household with their
RINs, for example "The household comprised Joe Bloggs 123, his wife
Fanny Adams 124, their children Mary Bloggs 333 & John Bloggs 335, a
Cook and a Housemaid." (I will not usually include the Notes in Reports
which include Events, or might edit the Report so that the Notes are
only included for the Head of Household.)
This method of entry makes it very quick and easy to use the Event
Clipboard to enter the Census information for everyone in a large
household, as only the Description line needs to be changed for each
person. When I look at any one individual I get a complete picture of
their household.
2. How do you enter specific fields such as in the 1900 US Census like:
Relation, Color or Race, Attended School, Can Read, Can Write, Can
speak English, Owner or rented home, Farm or House .. or even my
favorite in the 1870 Census is "Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane,
or idiotic.....
I've hardly had to deal with any US Censuses yet, but if faced with all
those columns I think I would include them all much as I do now: "Joe
Bloggs ... white; attended school; cannot read or write; can speak
English; home owner; farm..."
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Jenny M Benson
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