Paula & Susan,
You have a good point, and I think I'll consider that in the future. It
does make for more pleasant reading. Wish I'd done that from the beginning,
before I had 400+ individuals in my database! Ah, live and learn.
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paula Ryburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census sources
Pete,
For what it's worth, I do census information the way Susan does. I like
the
narrative better than the data. "He lived in Chesaning, Owasso Co.,
Michigan in 1880, working as a smith. He was 20 years old." or some such.
I have modified the event sentence structure and use the Notes.
As someone already said, it depends on what you want in your
output/reports---depends on your purpose for recording your genealogy. I
picture my daughter enjoying the narrative better than poring over columns
of data.
--Paula
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.
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