I am a Lumper. I use one source for a Census year and Country e.g Census 1841 UK, Census 1900 USA Although I suspect that were I based in the USA I would use "Census Year State County" I do not store census images within Legacy, instead I store the Full Census transcript and a note identifying where I have stored the original image e.g
Census 1871 UK: RG10/232/26/46: Registration District & Civil Parish of Pancras. Sub-district of Camden Town. Parliamentary Borough of Marylebone. Ecclesiastical Parish of St.Stephens. Schedule 348. 53 College Street West Hannah Pereise Head Unm 24 Laundress Middx., St.Pancras Edward do Son do 1 do,do Schedule 349. Thomas Pereise Head Mar 31 Music Smith Middx., St.Pancras Sarah do Wife Mar 24 Laundress do,do Sarah do Daur Unm 11 do,do William do Son do 8 Scholar do,do John do do do 6 do,do Thomas do do do 5 do,do George do do do 2 do,do see genealogy\Census1871\PereiraThomas18600101HullSarah.jpg If the Image is for a Family, then the Transcript is in the Parent's marriage notes and all sourced events (Occupation, Residence) are pointed to that location [in this example Thomas would have an Occupation event as a "Music Smith" located in 53 College Street West... Source Census 1871 UK detail=see marriage notes The children would have a residence of 53 College Street West using the same source but detail=see marriage notes of parents. Should an individual not be with their family then the census transcript would be in their Genereal Notes using the same method. The Genealogy folder is a sub folder of my filing system and can be on whatever drive I choose to use (Not the System Drive and by inference, not the Legacy folders) I try and avoid images except where I want to show pictures of individuals in Charts. [In case I want to change my filing system] I only use Basic sources so that I am not troubled by importing and exporting my file via GEDCOM. I hide General and Marriage notes when publishing tree information on the web as well as source repositories. Alan Pereira -----Original Message----- From: Tim Rosenlof [mailto:spa...@xmission.com] Sent: 08 September 2012 18:39 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records On 9/8/2012 10:27 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > Just to take the 1851 England Census alone I have 428 images, so > that's probably about 400 households. Multiply that up through all > the Censuses from 1841 to 1911, adding in Wales, Scotland, Channel > Islands and Isle of Man, not to mention USA, and I dread to think how > many individual Sources that would make! Welp... I am a huge splitter. I have over 200 census records just for the 1880 US Census. How would a person go to the original document without all the information to do so ? [Items, not necessarily in order] 1880 U.S. Census Spring, Sanpete County, Utah [ED] 123, page 456 Dwelling 789, Family 987 National Archives microfilm L6, roll 123 [My Citation here] That way someone will be able to go right to the source. You can give credit to the companies that provide the information. Example: Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, TimsGarage.com <Grin> Each family (dwelling) has their own. Am I nuts, others say yes. Tim Rosenlof 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
