Hi Peter,
For your second question, I do something very similar to what Tony
does, which is to maintain a list of persons at the left in an (Excel)
spreadsheet, and the Census years at the top, and then type in the
ages of the person in whatever census I happen to have found them.
Since I work mostly in the US, I gray out the boxes that they have not
yet emigrated to the US in, and I gray out boxes which would be before
or after they have lived. It helps me see at a glance if I am missing
anyone's census info.
For the first question, I actually don't use the census event. I've
thought about it, but haven't really felt it was necessary. What I
like to do is place the info into events like "residence" or
"occupation". What I then do is source it with a Master Source that
simply gives the generic name of the census, e.g. "1901 Ireland
Census" or "1880 US Census". In the Source Detail Information, I give
information that would allow someone else to find the record, too: the
location, the microfilm sheet and roll numbers, page numbers, dwelling
and family numbers, name of the household, name as indexed (if it
wasn't done correctly), and repository source, i.e. Ancestry.com and
date accessed online. So my source detail will look like this: "Lowell
Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_628; Page: 94; Image:
188; dwelling 1154, family 1525, Jeremiah O'Neil household [indexed as
Jerimiah Oneil]; enumerated 14 Jul 1870; digital image, Ancestry.com
(accessed 17 Jul 2004)." Then if the family is important to me, I
completely transcribe the record and place the data in Source Detail
Text. [If you are smarter than me, however, you will do this for every
record starting with day one!] I don't transcribe the column headers
since I figure people can find blank forms on line and can fill in the
blanks, if they are so inclined, with my transcription.
This is what a sample transcription looks like:
"Page No. 187
Ward 3 Lowell Middlesex County
enumerated 28 day of July 1870
Post Office: Lowell Mass.
1154 1525
O'Neil Jeremiah 57 M W Farmer 2000 300 -- [Ireland] 1 1 _
_ _ _ _ _ 1 _
Mary 45 F W Keeping house -- [Ireland] 1 1 _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Peter 11 M W At school Mass 1 1 _
_ 1 _ _ _ _ _ "
So then whenever I enter a person's occupation event, or whatever, I
use the clipboard memory to source it back to the correct census
image. I just like how it reads in a book. My "readers" would like to
know where someone lived, not what they told the census people in
1880. So as Dennis says, try a few mthods, then check how they form in
a report, and go with what you like best.
Have fun!
Susan
On 8/30/05, Peter Chalmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there. I've inherited a "tree" from my parents and want to take it
> further, but I'm new to genealogy in general and Legacy in particular, so
> please forgive what might be a fairly basic question. I've been using Legacy
> 5 [thanks to its free "standard" version - in my view a staggering product
> for no money! - but quickly upgraded to Deluxe, partly to gain the
> additional capabilities, but also partly because I thought it was a product
> worth supporting], but mostly my database contains the individuals and not
> much more at the moment. 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?
>
> 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?
>
> All suggestions gratefully received.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete Chalmers
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