Hi Steve and Lewis and Dick and all, I used to download every census image I found. One big problem is that Ancestry.com keeps changing the reader for the images. Half the ones I have on my hard disk are presently unreadable. The other factor is that I now have a high-speed Internet connection. It is now easier to just look at the image at Ancestry or HeritageQuest than find it on my hard disk. I certainly would never put the actual image in a report.
For the data, I put anything related to the individual in the Census Event: name, age, occupation (no separate Occupation Events), birth places, etc. Anything related to the census page, I put into the Source Citation: state, county, address, page number, census date, etc. I probably don't have the very best method for doing this, but I'm not about to go back and change the thousands I have already done. As for Dick's idea that Legacy have a template for entering census information, well maybe, but not for me. Again, I'm not going back and reentering thousands of these. Also, the exact information is different for each census year. Bill Hurst ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Silverman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census images > > --- On Sat 06/11, William Hurst < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > I don't use census images at all. Too many; they take up too much space. > > On average a census image from HeritageQuest is about 250K. For 10,000 > images that's only around 2.5 GB. You can buy a 200GB drive for around > $100.00. > > Unless you mean in reports, where even a full page image is difficult to > read. > > Steve 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
