Despite the dismissive and insulting replies I had on this subject I have persisted with trying to find a solution and for those actually interested I can point out the following (if you don't have anything constructive to say please don't reply)
Whilst I was previously doing the census list search with an individual county (ie. Scotland or England) I noticed that there is also an option to do a search with "United Kingdom" as the country. Through trial and error I discovered that whilst this appeared to be the answer to my problem the real answer was the help is not quite right. It states that "Legacy looks in several places to see if the current census has already been referenced for a particular person. These include event names and descriptions, individual and event source citations, and individual notes". The key is the fine detail of that last sentence. I have found the following: if you use the Census event with any date in the searched year then the person does not appear in the list. if you use any event but put "1851 census" (for example) in the description then the person does not appear on the list. if you use any source writer census master source for the searched year then the person does not appear in the list. if you use a basic source and the words "1851 census" (for example) are in the Source List Name then the person does not appear in the list HOWEVER, I was not able to put any words in the individual notes that resulted in the person not being displayed so the help is NOT correct when it says that. If it is correct then perhaps a Legacy staff member could advise what needs to be written to have this effect. So in summary, Legacy is smart enough to not advise you to look in a different countries census if you have found them elsewhere but you have to know what it is looking for in order to get the desired result. My issue was I was using a residence event with just the census date which didn't work. Now I have added the words "1851 census for Ireland not available" in the event description (with a sentence override) and it works as I expected. I hope some people find this useful. Gavin... 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
