Re: [LegacyUG] Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

[Deborah Trounstine]

That sounds like a really good method, Margaret. Boy, do I wish I'd started out that way - before I had 4600 individuals in my file. I started out with the old Generations program and then moved to Legacy about 2 years ago. I love Legacy, but of course imported from my old program rather than entering everyone by hand. I suppose this happens to plenty of us, eh? Thanks for the clear explanation of how you manage census records! Deborah Margaret Turner wrote: Deborah, I have a Legacy event called "Census" enter the Date (year) and place (city/suburb, state/county, country). In the notes I put for example: (generally copied from ancestry.com) St. Oswald Street. Civil parish: West Derby County/Island: Lancashire Country: England John Oliver Name: John Oliver, Age: 55, Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Mary Gender: Male Where born: Burton, Cheshire, England Household Members: Name Age John Oliver 55 Clerk of St. Oswald's Church Mary Oliver 52 William Oliver 24 Joiner Agness Oliver 17 Robert Oliver 15 Office Boy Joseph Oliver 13 Scholar Mary Oliver 11 Scholar Francis Oliver 8 Scholar I click on the "image" icon for that event to attach the census image I had previously downloaded from ancestry.com). I click on the house/phone icon to enter in the street no and street address (Address list/ if not already an address, Add or if present select the appropriate address) I click on the source icon (generally swith a simple title eg "UK 1851 Census". I click on the copy icon. I go to each other individual named on the census Add Event Click on the past icon. I have then one event per person per census event. :) Margaret On 19/12/2009, Deborah Trounstine <dtrounst...@comcast.net> wrote: I have been assigning all of my census records to the event category "unspecified" in the Assigned Sources window for each individual. However, when I started using GedView on my iPhone today, I realized that none of these census records sources were exported via gedcom. This has caused me to reconsider how I'm assigning census sources. The only solution I've come up with is to create an event for each individual called "census" and then assign the census records to that event. Is this the best way to assign census records as sources? What event or category do other people use to assign census records? Is is possible to add an event (census) to all the people in my file at one time? Thanks in advance for your help! Deborah Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009:    http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009:    http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp