Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-07 Thread Jim Walton
"Evidence Explained" says that a web site should not be used as a repository, so I don't. The only time I would have a repository is if it is a brick and mortar location like a genealogical library or personally owned copy. Web documents are digital images, and most templates have that capability.

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-07 Thread Jim Walton
haw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > > > - Original Message - From: Jim Walton > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: 07 October 2009 00:50 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information > > > I guess my problem st

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mike Fry wrote Perhaps this is why I see so many Americans opting to 'split' and Europeans opting to 'lump'! If so, then aren't the "lumpers" confusing Source and Repository? I don't make a great deal of use of "Repository" I must admit. An example of one of my Census Sources (first time cit

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-07 Thread Mike Fry
Jim Walton wrote: When I look at a list of sources, I would much rather see three or four sources that are easy to locate and then add the state, county, and city information in the detail record. I see the census as a single source with a series of volumes, one for each state. Each volume wou

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
Ron Ferguson wrote I had not considered that as a possible reason as to why I am a lumper, Jim, but you may well be right. It certainly is natural way of working for me rather than something which I actually gave consideration to when I first started out. And in my case it was having had Noma

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-06 Thread Ron Ferguson
/ - Original Message - From: Jim Walton To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: 07 October 2009 00:50 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information I guess my problem stems from my history with computers. I grew up in the days that if you did something on a computer more than twice, you

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Walton
Agreed, and I'm having an issue right now with some state documents that contain many volumes, but every document has a separate title. Fortunately only a handfull of records are affected, but it looks like I'm going to have to split in this case and make every volume a separate source. So, I guess

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-06 Thread Bruce Jones
I have gone the other way (splitting one master source into multiple), and it was a *lot* of work. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Janis L Gilmore wrote: > In theory, it seems as if that would be true. But I haven't done much > combining of sources, so I can't speak with any authority. > > Janis

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Walton
I guess my problem stems from my history with computers. I grew up in the days that if you did something on a computer more than twice, you write a program to automate the task. (This was back in the 70s when most people still didn't believe such a thing as a personal computer was very useful.) Wh

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-06 Thread Janis L Gilmore
In theory, it seems as if that would be true. But I haven't done much combining of sources, so I can't speak with any authority. Janis On 10/5/09 4:21 PM, "Bruce Jones" wrote: > It seems to me that it is easier for a Splitter to move toward being a > Lumper (by combining Master Sources) than

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-05 Thread Bruce Jones
certain Ron is cringing at this .) >> >> Kirsten >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on >> Behalf Of Jim Walton >> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM >> To: LegacyUserGrou

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-05 Thread Janis L Gilmore
n Ron is cringing at this .) > > Kirsten > > > -Original Message- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on > Behalf Of Jim Walton > Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [Leg

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-04 Thread Ron Ferguson
October 03, 2009 8:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information Thanks, Kirsten. It looks pretty good, so in the meantime I'll do it that way. You said it's extreme, but consider that a census is a document with 50 volumes, each volume has hundre

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-04 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
in LA CA - Original Message From: Jim Walton To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2009 8:56:05 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information Thanks, Kirsten. It looks pretty good, so in the meantime I'll do it that way. You said it's extreme, bu

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-04 Thread Jim Walton
> Kirsten >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on >>> Behalf Of Jim Walton >>> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM >>> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytr

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-04 Thread Ron Ferguson
inging at this .) Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Jim Walton Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census information Thanks, Kirsten. It looks pretty goo

RE: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-03 Thread Kirsten Bowman
ces but it bothers me not at all. (A certain Ron is cringing at this .) Kirsten -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Jim Walton Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-03 Thread Jim Walton
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 4:41 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Census information > > > I record census information as part of residency then I can do a > chronology showing residence to compare people I think may be related. > I the

RE: [LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-03 Thread Kirsten Bowman
tober 03, 2009 4:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census information I record census information as part of residency then I can do a chronology showing residence to compare people I think may be related. I then use the source writer for the census information and supplemen

[LegacyUG] Census information

2009-10-03 Thread Jim Walton
I record census information as part of residency then I can do a chronology showing residence to compare people I think may be related. I then use the source writer for the census information and supplement it in the notes with my comments, such as children, etc. that clarify the numbers a little b

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-29 Thread Jenny M Benson
Cathy Vallevieni wrote Is it appropriate to just enter in the "ID of Person" field just the head of household's name (i.e. John Smith Family) for all citations of that Census rather than each individual's name when assigning that Census to each family member listed on the Census? Well, that's

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Cathy Vallevieni
Thank you all who responded. Now I feel comfortable entering just the "household" name and having one citation for the Census without being concerned about breaking some "citation rule". Cathy Vallevieni Orange County, CA At 11:52 AM 6/25/2009, you wrote: Cathy, In this situation, I still

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Paula Ryburn
Cathy, In this situation, I still use the head of household in the citation. However, I add "he was a boarder in Joel DeBoard's house" in the Notes on Michael Smith's census Event. I like the way that looks on the reports I run. So maybe that is just personal preference. --Paula --- On Th

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Paula Ryburn
Cathy, That's what I do... enter head of household name, as it appears (sometimes it's last name first). --Paula --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Cathy Vallevieni wrote: > From: Cathy Vallevieni > Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFa

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Kirsten Bowman
>Kirsten > >-Original Message- >From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on >Behalf Of Cathy Vallevieni >Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:59 PM >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com >Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question > > >If I un

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Janis L Gilmore
Cathy, I cite the head of household: "Joel F. DeBoard household." The exception is when it is someone of a different surname, boarding in the household, or a nephew in the household, etc. In which case, I cite it as "Joel F. DeBoard household, for Michael Smith, boarder." Janis Walker Gilmore

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Ross Chapman
...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Vallevieni Sent: June-25-09 1:59 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question If I understand it correctly when citing a Census, the citation includes the name of the person ("ID of Person" in L

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-25 Thread Cathy Vallevieni
m]on Behalf Of Cathy Vallevieni Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question If I understand it correctly when citing a Census, the citation includes the name of the person ("ID of Person" in Legacy) and that m

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-24 Thread Kirsten Bowman
PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question If I understand it correctly when citing a Census, the citation includes the name of the person ("ID of Person" in Legacy) and that means each family member's name would be listed separately for th

[LegacyUG] Census Source Citation Question

2009-06-24 Thread Cathy Vallevieni
If I understand it correctly when citing a Census, the citation includes the name of the person ("ID of Person" in Legacy) and that means each family member's name would be listed separately for the source assigned to them. Since each different citation shows up as a separate source in the end

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-06 Thread Hope Bagot Bees
I'd go along with this - it's easy to see from the individual screen just what you do know about a person. As nearly everyone I add is long dead, their 'pattern of migration' be it from one village to another or one country to another is plain to see. Elizabeth John Roose wrote: I put census

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-05 Thread John Roose
Dave - I put census info into an event labelled "Residence." I then put "Census" in the description. I also use other sources for residence. I use "Tax Lists," sometimes "Church Record" [but I don't duplicate baptism], etc. I like to see the list of residence and dates in an easily (by me) spotted

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-05 Thread Cathy Vallevieni
I follow Geoff's method and put all the Census info in the Event, even for other members of the household, because I like to see the trend of the family (who lived with them, who was no longer living with them--I even note if it appears a child died because they dropped off the census at a youn

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-05 Thread GeoSci
I take a Census Event - and make it both a Residence EVent and (if possible) an occupation event. I then make the Census Event "private". Reports seem a lot "friendlier" showing where someone lived and what they did rather than all of that other data that comes with a census. I use the Census as

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-05 Thread JLB
I used to do it that way too, and only changed because I saw it done the other way by some-one more experienced. Does that make it right? Don't know. I would hardly call a visitor from the census-taker 'an event'. That's like notating every time the phone rings. Even I am not that organized. -

[LegacyUG] Census vs Residence

2009-01-05 Thread Dave Johnson
Hello, great Legacy User's Group Helpers, Before I learned that there was a Census Event, I put all occurrences in the Census as Residence Events. Is there a significant difference between using the Census Event vs the Residence Event? Thanks for your input. Dave Legacy User

RE: [LegacyUG] Census: Event or Source?

2008-12-08 Thread eshown
Ron F. wrote: > one of the considerations which I made when deciding how to deal with census. What is the source for a census? In Britain, The government? It wasn't their information, they only collected it. without going through all the administrative layers we end up with the householder who

RE: [LegacyUG] Census: Event or Source?

2008-12-07 Thread ronald ferguson
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >

[LegacyUG] Census: Event or Source?

2008-12-07 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
Ron, I have copied your comments from the Source Subsequent Citation thread, but I have deleted most of your comments and the post to which you responded because I hope we can discuss the example of the census and whether or not it is an event or a source. While I record this as an event, the

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-09 Thread music-line
rmaster, Polesworth Abbey www.polesworthabbey.co.uk * -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of music-line Sent: 07 November 2008 10:05 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master So

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-08 Thread Pauline B. Cramer
mpare every byte with what has already been cited? Or will it somehow keep track of source details that were copied/placed via the clipboard (and not edited after)? Ward - Original Message - From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:43 PM Sub

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-08 Thread Kirsten Bowman
CTED] Behalf Of Ward Walker Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 11:24 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source I wonder about this. As discussed a few months ago, the system for printing the initial citation and then subs

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-08 Thread JLB
re copied/placed via the clipboard (and not edited after)? Ward - Original Message - From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source In regards to making multip

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-08 Thread Ward Walker
h what has already been cited? Or will it somehow keep track of source details that were copied/placed via the clipboard (and not edited after)? Ward - Original Message - From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread ronald ferguson
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Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread GeoSci
I am waiting - too many problems with the mixed BASIC and SOURCEWRITER sources when it comes to reports. Once that is resolved - I may switch. But my system does what sources should do -- gives anyone looking at them all they need to see what I saw to prove a fact. What more do you need??? And -

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread GeoSci
My sources are much like Michele's - except I put the State FIRST (Georgia US Census - 1880 - McDuffie Co) so that - when I look at my sources - everything from Georgia will be together (Marriage records would be Georgia - Marriage). Works for me! Keith On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Miche

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Sue Jones
I have also use the same method as Jenny. I now wish to convert all these to use the new SourseWriter template. Should I wait until the new conversion tool that is to come or just how should I go about it? Susan Yikes, the thought of having a separate Master Source for every household for every

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
music-line wrote Example: If I lump together all my Staffordshire census details for 1901, I may have 10 different addresses. Let's say, there are 5 people living at each address - that's 50 people (some which may have duplicate names). Yikes, the thought of having a separate Master Source f

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread JLB
ember 07, 2008 2:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source Hi everyone, It will be much later on in the weekend before I am able to read the replies to this, but hear goes (again). I have really tried to look back in the

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Michele Lewis
I think the trick to have a lot of sources is how you organize them. This is what I do... Census - GA - McDuffie Co - 1880 Census - GA - Richmond Co - 1850 Census - LA - Caddo Parrish - 1860 Census - MS - Lamar Co - 1910 Census - MS - Lamar Co - 1920 All the censuses will be listed together th

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread SHIRLEY ANDERSON
I don't lump census sources either. I have over 26,000 people in my data base, and hundreds, perhaps thousands of census records. I don't find the length of the list to be unmanageable. For U.S. and Canada census records, I start with an event: Event=census, date=year of census, place=city, s

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Kirsten Bowman
atabase and how will that product be impacted by either lumping or splitting? Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of music-line Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:05 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census records:

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
rching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "music-line" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:04 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source Hi everyone, It will be much later on

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Gail Nestor
That was the whole reason I previously advocated having identical citation details entered only once, and then creating multiple links to different people (instead of having to create multiple entries of the same detail each time it is needed). Not only would the links leave less room for error an

Re: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread Dick Nixon
Well said. I came to the same conclusion some time ago. Lumping makes sense in theory but the editing problem you cite makes it much more difficult in practice. I think that there are other reasons for splitting as well but it was fixing mistakes or making additons in souce detail that convinced

RE: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:04:32 + > > Hi everyone, > > It will be much later on in the weekend before I am able

[LegacyUG] Census records: Master Source v. Detail Source

2008-11-07 Thread music-line
Hi everyone, It will be much later on in the weekend before I am able to read the replies to this, but hear goes (again). I have really tried to look back in the archives to read the long thread on 'lumping and splitting' but it is no longer there. When Legacy 7 was released with the new sourcew

RE: [LegacyUG] census

2008-10-04 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com = From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph Clark Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 7:45 AM To: legacyusergroup Subject: [LegacyUG] census When selecting the

[LegacyUG] census

2008-10-04 Thread Randolph Clark
When selecting the 1870 federal census the series is pre-entered as M593. Isn't Minnesota on T132? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: h

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread music-line
egacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter. My bad. I misread the question to being about avoiding multiple inputting of data. Rich in LA CA --- On Tue, 9/30/08, Jenny M Ben

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
My bad. I misread the question to being about avoiding multiple inputting of data. Rich in LA CA --- On Tue, 9/30/08, Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'publis

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote Redundancy is not evil. The disk space used by the 4 characters is made up for by the 'fact' it is appearing somewhere in whichever report you use, without retyping. In the past, I used abbreviations to save disk space usage, I learned and changed my ways. Richard, yo

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
e, 9/30/08, Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jenny M Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in > the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter. > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTre

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of music-line Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:58 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date'

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread John Clare
The original source is National Archives HO107 (HO stands for Home Office) and the class is England and Wales Census for 1851 (not just England). There are many organisations who have transcribed the images, but the original image production was done by the National Archives in the days when it was

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
ronald ferguson wrote There is no way I would put in all that stuff from Ancestry!! As you will see elsewhere in this thread, I do! (For the reasons I have given.) Ancestry is the repository and not the source. I agree with you, but Ancestry is "publishing" the Census and "handy hint" fo

Re: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
music-line wrote Just interested to see what people do here. What information would people put in the 'published date' section of the sourcewriter template if the information is found online at ancestry.com? 1851? It is the 1851 census of England, so is there any point in putting it twice?

RE: [LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread ronald ferguson
mshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: [LegacyU

[LegacyUG] Census Information: How to record 'published date' in the the Master Source definition of Sourcewriter.

2008-09-30 Thread music-line
Hi everyone, Just interested to see what people do here. What information would people put in the 'published date' section of the sourcewriter template if the information is found online at ancestry.com? 1851? It is the 1851 census of England, so is there any point in putting it twice? 2005?

Re: [LegacyUG] Census dates

2008-09-14 Thread Janis L Gilmore
I have one instance of a family appearing twice in the same county census - a large family, apparently the result of a move. I also have an instance of a woman appearing with her parents and siblings,under her maiden name, although she was a couple of years into her _second_ marriage. This was qui

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-07 Thread Colin Liddell
Kirsten, I am finding that already and my only regret is I did not make the move sooner.{;-) Colin. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 2:29 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes C

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-06 Thread music-line
17:53 To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! David, I cannot understand that as the address below is fine (just checked it) Note it is not .com. Actually it would be better with a slash at the end (have now put that in) but th

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-06 Thread Glenn Woodman
Mike Fry wrote: > Re-read the original message. In fact look at the bottom of any of Rons' > messages. You'll see that he's in the UK therefore you need *.co.uk* Thanks, Mike. I should have been able to see that. On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Mike Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Wood

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-06 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:52:37 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the > question! > > Ron, > > I tried visiting your Website at fergys.co (as you listed).

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-06 Thread Mike Fry
Glenn Woodman wrote: Ron, I tried visiting your Website at fergys.co (as you listed). I get a message returned "unable to located that page." I then tried www.fergys.com, and I get another message saying that that domain is available for purchase. Is there a typo in your post? Re-read

RE: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Kirsten Bowman
12:32 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes Hi Kirsten, Thank you for your thoughts, I have now put the additonal names in as AKAs and used the birth registration spelling on his main page. I have also left the notes in the Birth and Marriage Notes to c

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-06 Thread Glenn Woodman
Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____ > > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legac

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Colin Liddell
- Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes Colin Liddell wrote > My father was Baptised Archibald George but was known all his

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
Colin Liddell wrote My father was Baptised Archibald George but was known all his life as George, would you classify that as an AKA? No, as it its one of his officially given names I would enter it as a quoted name ("Archibald George "George" in the firstname field) and use George in Reports

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Colin Liddell
- Original Message - From: Jenny M Benson To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes Colin Liddell wrote > >My question is; how do I handle the different spellings of his surname?

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
Colin Liddell wrote My question is; how do I handle the different spellings of his surname? Do I make the assumption that the birth spelling is correct and just use that in all instances or should I put in the Marriage notes the spelling used there and in the Birth notes the spelling used th

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-06 Thread Colin Liddell
and a convert from FTM and Legacy is taking a bit to get used to.{;-) Colin. - Original Message - From: Kirsten Bowman To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:07 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes Welcome Colin! You shoul

[LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Dave Keeney
iginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Young Sent: 05 July 2008 04:08 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! On 7/4/08, Jenny M Benson wrote: > So if you found a p

RE: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Kirsten Bowman
takes it for a typo. Kirsten -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Liddell Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:30 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes I am a new user of Legacy and still finding my way. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Rachel Alliston
- Original Message - From: "Colin Liddell" : My question is; how do I handle the different spellings of his surname? : : Do I make the assumption that the birth spelling is correct and just use : that in all instances or should I put in the Marriage notes the spelling : used there and

[LegacyUG] Census & BMD Name changes

2008-07-05 Thread Colin Liddell
I am a new user of Legacy and still finding my way. I have come across a small problem and wondered how others would handle it. I have just found my ggg grandfather Joseph THOMAS and his wife Grace in the English 1891 Census living in Hackney, London with their daughter Emily and husband George

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Bruce McArthur
Hi again I'm sorry I seem to have opened a can of worms with my description of TMG's ability to record "witnesses". Witnesses is just a TMG generic term for other people involved in an event - in fact they can take on any role - so in a census they can be wife, son, daughter etc, for a will

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
Mary Young wrote I don't worry about "resources" that is what modern computers Nice if you can afford to upgrade to bigger and better memory and hard drive whenever you need to! Chacun a son gout. I guess we have to agree to differ. Fortunately, we are all free to differ and most of us a

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Jenny M Benson
music-line wrote Now I'm no expert (as by now you've gathered) but surely if the information is there whether it is in the Master Source or Detail Source it is the same information, being recorded the same number of times and therefore using (approximately) the same memory resources. Surely w

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
From: "Wynthner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! The point is that it doesn't matter who gave the information. Whoever gave it would be Witness #1. As

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Wynthner
ROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 5:12:16 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! How in the world do you tell who gave the info to the census enumerator?  In just one case, I can tell -- my grandmoth

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Cary
D] On Behalf Of Gary Templeman Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:55 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! - Original Message - From: "Janis Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturd

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Gary Templeman
- Original Message - From: "Janis Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 8:29 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! I am a splitter, although I split less with the new Source Writer. I am tru

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
CTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:29 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! I am a splitter, although I split less with the new Source Writer. I am truly curious as to why anyone cares how many Master Sources they have? I frequently s

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 12:44 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! Hi Mary, I really want to be able to search legacy for a census (exact location) and to get a census (exact location) as a result and not

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Janis Gilmore
just truly curious.) Janis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce McArthur Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:20 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! Hi This i

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread John Clare
Another reason for not splitting is to avoid errors. If you consider each one as separate, there is a chance that mistakes can enter into the data. Also, if you wish to change the description of a source, you only have to change it in one place rather than in each record. In the UK, the Public Reco

RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread music-line
July 2008 12:34 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question! Maybe it's easier in v.7 (or do you have that already?) Mary On 7/5/08, music-line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found it Mary, so thanks for that, bu

Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!

2008-07-05 Thread Mary Young
Maybe it's easier in v.7 (or do you have that already?) Mary On 7/5/08, music-line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found it Mary, so thanks for that, but as you say, it is a bit tedious. > To find something in a Detail Source, I eventually found it by searching > Citation-Text. Legacy User Grou

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