Jim: You're welcome. But just be forewarned: Someday you might want to know which families were all living in the same state at the same time . . . or the same county. Then you'll be on the road to splitting. I split at the county level and probably have well over 200 census sources but it bothers me not at all. (A certain Ron is cringing at this <G>.)
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Jim Walton Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information Thanks, Kirsten. It looks pretty good, so in the meantime I'll do it that way. You said it's extreme, but consider that a census is a document with 50 volumes, each volume has hundreds of chapters. Even the 1790 census would have at least 13 sources plus the counties. Even narrowing it down to states would produce over 50, considering territories such a Puerto Rico and Guam. But maybe I'm being too detailed. Anyway, your suggestion will work as a work-around. Thanks again. Jim On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Kirsten Bowman <vik...@rvi.net> wrote: > Jim: > > That's pretty extreme lumping, but it should be easy to do. (And just today > I wrote that I'm reforming from this!) > > Anyway, why can't you just create a Master Source called 1790 US Census and > leave out the other location details. Then on the Source Detail screen on > the Source Clipboard, you put the state, county, etc. in the "ID of Person" > field. That seems to create a pretty decent looking citation. > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on > Behalf Of Jim Walton > Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 4:41 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Census information > > > I record census information as part of residency then I can do a > chronology showing residence to compare people I think may be related. > I then use the source writer for the census information and supplement > it in the notes with my comments, such as children, etc. that clarify > the numbers a little better. Problem is, the source writer asks for > the state and county in the master source rather than in the detail. > That means that I have multiple sources for the same area because > different states and counties are involved. I want a single source for > 1790, 1800, etc. rather than 1790-New Hampshire-Grafton,1790-New > Hampshire-etc... Then the detail would include the local information. > > I have made a suggestion to Legacy to make the change as using the > override to redo the citations is cumbersome, but I would like to get > some feedback on my idea, methods, and other possibilities. > > Jim 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
