Hi Peter,
You'll find heaps in the archives on this.
What I do:
I have a Census Source for each year of the UK census
In the Source Detail I put the full census reference:
For 1851-1901 this is series/piece folio and page. eg RG9/1256 52 3
That's all you need to find an actual census sheet. 1841 is a little but
not much different.
In Source Detail Text, I put a transcription of the household.
I have a Census Event and use it as follows:
Type: Census
Description: Head of household and relationship to head (leave blank for
head of household)
Date: The full census date (eg 2 Apr 1871)
Place: with as much detail as you put in locations. For major people I
include the street address/house name or whatever here but some see that as
heresy and put it in Event Address.
Notes: For head of household or for family member not living at home, I put
the full transcription in the notes. For others, I put a note if there was
something unusual about the way they are enumerated (name - age etc) but
otherwise leave blank.
I've edited the Event Sentence so that when the Description is blank it reads:
[FirstHeShe] was recorded on the British census of [Date] [inPlace] as head
of household.[Sources][CR][Notes]
and when all fields filled it reads:
[FirstHeShe] was recorded on the British census of [Date] [atPlace] in the
household of [Desc].[Sources][CR][Notes]
I find I don't need many sentence overrides. I use one if someone is found
in an "institution" - hospital, prison, ship, ...
The Census source is used for the Census event and any other information
I've gleaned from the census. Provided you don't change any of the source
detail by even a space or a comma, the source only prints once in reports.
RE keeping track of which census still needs collecting. See the Resource
Guidance in Legacy 6. This may provide what you need. :-)
Cathy
At 02:18 AM 31/08/2005, you wrote:
I've now started to accumulate census data from the UK, and I'd
appreciate your views on how best to incorporate this into Legacy.
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?
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