Pete Chalmers wrote:
> For example, I can make the England 1871 Census a Master Source, and then
> add Census events to each individual with the page reference info,
> transcription etc. in the event detail. Or I can make each page reference
a
> Master Source, with maybe a complete transcription there, and then add a
> Census event with just a reference to that Master Source. Of course, the
> second way will mean I get a large number of Master Source entries. The
> first way seems tidier, but makes a bit of extra work for me when adding
> sources. How do other people deal with this? Is there a better way
> altogether?
You'll probably get quite a few different suggestions for this. My way is to
have a Master Source for each census year ("1871 Census" etc), then put the
reference in the Source Detail. I have a Census event for each individual
concerned where I record the details of the entry, using the Description
field for the occupation, and the Event Notes for their age and place of
birth, plus any extra information, such as if someone was widowed, any
significant occupants apart from the expected two parents and their children
etc.
>From what I've read here, I think I'm rather unusual in that I don't keep a
record of the full entry on any of the people concerned. (Some people keep
this in the source text, and some, I think, in the event notes.) This dates
from the time when I had an older PC with a small HD, and floppies as my
only backup medium, so I wanted to keep the Legacy file as compact as
possible, but as long as I keep the full reference in the source I've never
found it a problem. I keep census transcriptions as documents totally
separate from Legacy, and paper copies of the printouts as well.
> On a related subject, I'd like to be able to produce some kind of
> "completeness" report, which can quickly tell me who I haven't yet found
> census entries for yet. Ideally I'd like to produce a table with names
down
> the left, and various censuses (England 1861, England 1871, Wales 1871,
> etc.) as columns, with a tick (or something) to show which entries I've
got.
> It seems to me that something like this ought to be feasible (if I can
work
> out the right way to record the census entries in the first place),
possibly
> using advanced searches and tags. Has anyone managed anything similar?
I managed to do this kind of thing recently by searching on the event date
and tagging the results. Unless I've missed something, you can only show 3
tags in the search results report, which was enough for me on that occasion,
but I guess you might want to use a tag for each census year. If it was me,
I think I would probably set up a separate spreadsheet and fill in the boxes
manually, though since Legacy's Search List reports can be exported in .csv
format, you might be able to automate it to some extent.
Hope this helps,
Arthur Kennedy
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