To "bgsu" - *this* is what I would call a "splitter" ;) In reality, I think there is a lumper-splitter continuum.
To answer the OP, for US I lump to the county level: US Illinois Cook 1920 US Illinois McLean 1920 etc. I think that is actually somewhere in the middle on the lumper-splitter spectrum. Currently wrestling with the having to have a different source depending on the repository of images I used, though: US Illinois Cook 1920 HeritageQuest US Illinois Cook 1920 FamilySearch etc. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: SHIRLEY ANDERSON <yor...@prodigy.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sat, September 8, 2012 10:51:58 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to lump census records I seem to have a method that is different from all the others messageing. I have used it for years. I don't use sourcewriter. Each household is a different source. I start each record as an event with year/date/place, which gives me a quick list of where the person lived over the years. In the source, I include: year, abbrev for country (or state if it is a state census), name of head of household, address, description (ED, page, line, household as appropriate). This gives me a quick glance at who the person lived with over the years. In the detail for the person, I copy and paste the info from Ancestry (the lines below the image), and add other data that isn't indexed. For the ones from Find My Past I use their index line. My earlier census work was all done from microfilm back when there wasn't any online. Now I use Ancestry for most of my census work. When I have an old record from microfilm, my source description is sufficient to find it by browsing on Ancestry if the index doesn't work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shirley York Anderson yor...@prodigy.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <snip> 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
