This subject comes up fairly regularly. There are two trains of thought. 1. Census is an event 2. Census is a source of information
I use the #2 approach with the main event being "residence" that included the address/location of the person/family. If there is a specific street and house number, I place that in the address rolodex for the residence event. The year of the census is in the year field, the location in the place field. I sometimes include relevant information in the description field. Such as, they were a lodger in the home of ..... Occupation(s) is/are also added based on the census data. I also include any AKA's. If the census is for a family, I enter the residence in the marriage events of the couple and include a residence event for each of the children who are living at home. Since the major part of my research is in Norway, living in a different location frequently means a name change. Lill Ann On 17 Mar 2005 at 15:25, Steve Laming wrote: > > Following on from Rob's comments about storing addresses. I wondered > if there is a better way of storing Census data than using the events. > Ideally the addresses would be formatted, i.e. special place for > Town, County etc. But currently I have been using the Place field of > the event. With Census as the event, the year in the date field and > relationship and occupation in the Description field. > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
