I have a Master Source for each U. S. census year, state and county. So the source would be called:
Missouri, Howell - census 1900 (Ancestry) In the census event, I call it simply "census" (but I think there is a good argument for having the census events defined by year). I do not put anything in the descriptive (although I have toyed with entering the exact head of household name). I use the exact census date, from the census page, as the date. I enter full census data in the Notes section, so that it will be viewable on the Chronology page: 1. Jas Phipps, head, owns free of mortgage, male, white, 48, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, farmer 2. Martha Phipps, wife, female, white, 50, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee 3. Tim Phipps, son, male, white, 20, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 4. Ruby Phipps, daughter, female, white, 15, attended school this year, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 5. Paul Phipps, son, male, white, 12, attended school this year, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee 6. Sim Phipps, son, male, white, 10, attended school this year, Missouri, Missouri, Tennessee I also bold the person of interest in the above list. Having said that, I do try to keep my database up to date. But,I suggest to you that the more serious you get about your methodology, the less serious these questions become - because you do so much writing, with footnotes, and do not consider your database any longer to be chapter and verse. Janis Walker Gilmore On 9/11/09 4:57 PM, "Alan Jones" <a...@ajsquared.us> wrote: > > William H. Boswell wrote: >> This is how I've been doing mine. It would be nice if genealogy programs >> would provide a real template for enter the information. I haven't checked >> to see if Legacy has anything like that. >> > > William, I agree they have source templates it would be really nice to > have event templates for each Census year at least the major Census years. > > thanks for your thoughts. > > Alan > > > > > > 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 > > > 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
