I'm working with ancestry.ca online (new subscription) images of birth and death records for Ontario. Ontario marriage records are on microfilm but images are not online, though ancestry.ca has a name index. Marriage registration 1875 named the parents of a man who settled in Ontario before the 1851 census with his first wife and family.
Master locations don't work because the areas changed names over time as the land used for farms for a hundred years or more was converted for housing projects. Some of the cemetery stones were moved and grouped together in recent years. I'd like to replace my 1970 typed notes with a Legacy Narrative including all pictures but there are too many changes to edit every book report in a word processor. All birth, death, burial details for an individual need to be in ONE database without using multiple companion programs, generic spreadsheets or databases (Excel, Access.) One of my county research areas has BMD databases and sometimes two or three different versions of name lists for the same census years 1871-1911. Some areas have extensive tombstone records and collections of obits. Every source has variations in name and birth date for the same individual. Looks like previous researchers who shared the family history worked from Ontario burial records which may not have shown the location of death. A young man who "died" in his Ontario home town was found in Manitoba online death records. An elderly woman who "died" in the same place as her husband was mentioned in Alberta newspaper items along with details about family members going east for the funeral. One of the early researchers of that branch was a university professor who started with a word processor file and then used a DOS genealogy program with non-standard GEDCOM. He answered a few specific e-mail questions based on a later custom database and sold copies of his family history at reunions. Over time, the 1869-1932 Ontario death registrations evolved from one line per individual to one page with a lot of details. Text only sources based on a searchable index are less reliable than images showing the clerk's handwriting and sometimes notes (name change.) Legacy PDF book reports are limited to one size of event image and one size of source image. Birth, christening, marriage, death and burial images in Legacy reports require custom events. My method is to plan data entry so that essential and interesting details like age at death, cause of death and the age given for each census year can be displayed on wall charts. Selected details for direct line plus sibings makes a more compact wall chart (or outline report) than all descendants *without* tagging selected names and starting a temporary file. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick > The portion of Legacy, even in this release doesn't really provide a > standard, intuitive method/process/entry of cemetery > information - but rather provides a "free form" entry and recording of > specific cemetery / burial / Interment information. Legacy User Group 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
