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

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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of William H. Boswell
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:07 PM
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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

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From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on
Behalf Of Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:54 PM
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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





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