Dear Gene,
Hi there, here's my humble ideas of what I do with a CENSUS say
1851 Market Street, Hope, Derbyshire, England
with Two parents, 10 children
In the GENERAL NOTES field of the head of household I list the complete
census transcription-
Then for head of household in EVENT field titled CENSUS-
enter Date is 1851
Address - Market Street, Hope, Derbyshire, England
notes field comments would be 'Head, aged 38, farmer 40 acres'
Then for wife I make bring up the EVENT field titled CENSUS-
enter Date is 1851
Address - Market Street, Hope, Derbyshire, England- aged 35, farmer's wife
each children would have same except their events notes field would say
something like
-aged 13, scholar living with parents
(by stating 'with parents' or 'wife I know full details are available with
father's/ husband notes if I want to see)
If a child is missing from census night. I add a comment EVENT like
CENSUS- 1851- leaving location blank and then in notes field of event
state-' not with rest of family- perhaps died' ( or if I know he was about
in a later census I know I have to look to see whether with other family
members if young or maybe out working if abit older )
With this the EVENTS listing for each person helps to build up for me for
a chronological timeline then of their life.
eg CENSUS 1841- ,Hope, Derbyshire, England- aged 2 living with maternal
grandfather
CENSUS 1851 Market Street, Hope, Derbyshire, England- aged 12 living
with parents
CENSUS 1861 Market Street, Hope, Derbyshire, England- head, aged 22,
carpenter
IMMIGRATION 23 May 1865- ,,Queensland, Australia- arrived on "Earl
Russell' , aged 27 with wife Ann and son William
RESIDENCE- 14 Jan 1867- Grandchester, Queensland, Australia
etc.... etc...
The SOURCE would be where you got the details eg with 1851 census
"1851 CENSUS" Chapel-en-le-Frith Registration District HO107/2151- fol 345
pg 23
(photocopy taken from LDS film 1234567)
That source could then be applied all information you have extracted from
it, You might also get BIRTH details, the above Events CENSUS fields
etc...someone might be a widower so, you know wife DIED 'pre 1851' all
sorts of things can be found , but all have the same SOURCE
Again this is just what works for me and how I like my reports.
Regards Sandy Quinn
Gordonvale- Far North Queensland- Australia
email- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Stuff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Enhancements to Legacy
> I would think this might work except when you want to print a bibliography
> and then the book that described thousands of events for several
generations
> of people is listed thousands of times in the bibliography.
>
> I'm actually stunned that Legacy cannot handle linking multiple people
with
> different roles to a single event. Maybe I'm still not getting it. If
you
> find a census record for a family with 2 parents, 10 children, and a
boarder
> do you then create 13 different resided events? Wouldn't it make more
sense
> to have a single event and link the 12 people to that one event? Also,
that
> single census entry will give me evidence for birth locations and and
years
> for all 13 people and probably the occupations of one or more of them, and
> possibly immigration and naturalization dates. If I search by source
rather
> than by event do I have to enter the census as a source more than
> once...once for each event it is the source for?
>
> I am a new user of Legacy, so quite possibly I just don't understand how
it
> works.
>
>
> >From: "Stephen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >The advice I got when I started Legacy was that every marriage, birth,
> >death, census entry should have it's own master source. Experience has
> >proved that was wise advice. It gives me far more flexibility and in the
> >long run is actually easier to manage.
> >Steve Thomas
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Patty Lill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > However, I run into a problem if I have several marriages referenced
by
> >one
> > > master source...
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