Think of the Address List as something for current addresses like your phone book (does anyone have one of those any more? <g>) This could even include a nursing home address or other group home if they're living in that situation.
The Residence Event is a historical event - this is where they *used* to live. After a person dies, I put the current mailing address in the Residence Event and maybe with a note that it was their last address before they died. When I search Census records, I create a Census Event and then events that I glean from the census, including occupation, residence, etc. Most of the time when there's a Residence event created from the census, I can't figure out a street address so I leave the Description field blank. And of course, use the census for the source of information. As for the family home where several generations have lived, you can create a separate Residence event for each person who lived there - really quick with the use of the Event Clipboard and then just make a quick change of dates in the newly created event. The Event clipboard will remain the same or you can set a new one if you have a large family to paste that event to. Some people might use Shared Events for this, but I prefer using Event Clipboard since I find it much more flexible than Shared Events. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Graham Love <love-fam...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks again Sherry. I don't use mailing addresses much but I do have a lot > of residence events and have done as you suggest. These do also show up in > address searches. Where I have a census and recorded it as an event it is > sometimes different to any residence address and I have added the event > address, shared by all those on the census. If I use the name field to record > the address I have to omit it from the address field otherwise when I use > [address] it shows up twice, as it does in the master list. What I have now > for an event sentence is: > Edwin appeared in the Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891 in Islington, > London, (96 Riversdale Road, Islington, London, England).ยน His occupation is > recorded as 'Greengrocer'. > This seems ok to me but maybe cries out for a short version of [address]. And > now all my addresses show properly in the master list and are searchable. I > guess part of my pain has been dealing with family homes occupied by more > than one generation over a longer period of time and getting picked up by > successive censuses. > Thanks, > Graham > 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
