Bill: You'll be doubly-glad you didn't do it earlier when you start citing census sources with Legacy and see how fast and easy it is.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:07 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Where to input census? 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 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
