Maybe I misread it, but they do have jurisdictions which are just as bad. Some of the Special Populations Schedules (Pg. 288) show NARA microfilm numbers in the Source List Entry.
I skipped the entire census part when I saw how confusing it was and more work. I figured one day when I get all my data together I'd reorganize it. I'm glad I didn't do it in FTM after reorganizing my sources otherwise I'd probably be doing it again. Bill -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Kirsten Bowman Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Where to input census? Bill: I also have _Evidence Explained_ and have studied it pretty carefully but have never seen a recommendation to break down census citations by film roll. Rather, Mills recommends grouping sources by author and title (for books), collections (for manuscripts), geographical area, repositories, or source type. Film Series is just a recommended *element* of the census source citation that is added automatically if you use Legacy's SourceWriter template for the various censuses. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Where to input census? I only create a main source for each items such as the census. It is only by year and then cited for each family with their own information. That one citation is used for each family member/event. Other sources are just plain death certificate, birth certificate, newspapers (for obits) by the name of the newspaper, etc. I had renamed and reorganized all my sources last year in FTM 2009 and removed/merged all duplicates. It was a nightmare that I don't want to repeat. I know in Elizabeth Mills book, which I have, she lists that census records should be broken down by each film roll, location, etc. which I find impossible and probably impractical unless you want to spend the next 50 years redoing everything. This is a good book to have since I have found very good information for cemetery records and other sources. I no longer use the census as an event because I hated adding it to hundreds of people. I only use the information as a source for events as Ron mentioned. I did the same for obituaries too and don't do it anymore even though some still exist. I wish genealogy programs would have an internal form for adding census information that could be attached to source citations. I've been waiting for something like this for years. I usually just transcribed each line and do not always include all the information. I figure I can go back to the image source if I need more. Bill -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to input census? Mary, In case you don't know, users tend to fall into two classes. "lumpers" and "splitters". The former have few Master Sources and use the Detail Citation to include the specific details relating to a given situation, whereas splitters break their Sources down either geographically or by some other system, however, I doubt if many splitters actually create a census Master Source for each household. I am an unreconstructed lumper and only have one Master Source for each country, broken down into census years. So, I have Master sources for England/Wales 1941, 1951 etc. and Scotland 1941, 1951 etc. At this point there are other decisions to be made as to how much detail to include in the Detail Source and I am not one of those who dogmatically follow Evidence Explained and in particular I do not include details in the Source which are included in the Event. Perhaps I should explain that I do not have a Census Event, and only use the a census as a Source. Thus I would attach a census source to a residence event, occupation event, name, birthdate etc. Remember, that just because there is a box in a form you do not have to put anything in it. I am not suggesting that you should follow my practice, but I am simply giving an illustration of one different way of doing things. As others have said, the choice is yours. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Horner To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: 30 September 2009 05:44 Subject: [LegacyUG] Where to input census? I am a newbie to Legacy. I have a hugs amount of data gleaned from 7 Canadian census reports 1851-1911. Where do I input this info? I started by pasting the household under Master Source notes with the 'Head' showing everyone in the household and then each individual gets a single line under detail in the source menu and then again entering each individual in events but this seems so repetitive and will take forever. I am also concerned that when it comes to printing reports the same census material is going to be repeated over and over. Does Legacy have instructions somewhere as to how to enter census info? All I can find is how to download a blank form. 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