Maureen I'm with Kurt - am a confirmed lumper and use the detail for the places. I am able without any trouble to match my SourceWriter entries with Evidence Explained. It really does depend on what works best for you but give it some thought and work through a few entries (data input), check a chronology report of family group sheet (data output), to see if you like how it looks and how it works for you.
Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, No. 5089, Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ TessaWatch on YouTube (videos on genealogy, Legacy, one-name and one-place studies) Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > And if you are using Legacy's SourceWriter templates, Legacy itself will > force you to separate the TYPES of census records in a given census year. > ("tangled web" comes to mind when I stop to ponder SW templates...) > > --Paula > > ________________________________ > From: Michele/Support <mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:52 AM > > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] US census master source > > This goes back to preferring to be a lumper or a splitter. It really is > personal preference. I like to have my citations mirror the ones in > Evidence Explained so for census records I am a splitter. You see how I do > it based on how I have them listed in my Master Source List. All entries > are Ancestry.com unless I have (FS). > > > Census Records - Federal - Georgia - Columbia County - 1880 > Census Records - Federal - Georgia - Columbia County - 1880 mortality > Census Records - Federal - Georgia - Richmond County - 1850 > Census Records - Federal - Georgia - Richmond County - 1850 slave > Census Records - Federal - Mississippi - Perry County - 1850 > Census Records - Federal - Mississippi - Perry County - 1860 > Census Records - State - Mississippi - Perry County - 1845 (FS) > Census Records - State - Mississippi - Perry County - 1853 (FS) > > > Yes, I have a lot of entries but they are organized in such a way that it > makes it very easy for me to find what I am looking for. > > > Michele > Technical Support > mich...@legacyfamilytree.com > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 10:29 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] US census master source > > I treat the 1880 US Federal Census as a single master source entity, but > consider the different indexes (Ancestry vs Family Search vs others) as > separate master source entities. I put the state and county info with the > other detail info. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maureen Lake [mailto:arespo...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:59 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] US census master source > > Good morning, > > I'm just looking for input. How do you handle the US (or any other) census > as a master source? It asks you to break it down by locality, state and > county. If you are dealing with diverse areas of the country, how do you > differentiate the carious localities. > > Basically I'm wondering if anyone has a more efficient system than mine. > For instance, I list the 1880 census for Randolph county, Indiana, as "1880 > US census [IN - Randolph]. 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