RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-24 Thread Janis Gilmore
t: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I don't consider Tax Rolls (or for that matter the US Census) as events; imho they are merely sources for the information they contain about certain aspects of an individual's life (place of residence at that particular instance in time, etc.). As

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-15 Thread Janis Gilmore
Behalf Of Mary Figgins Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:14 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names The date and location go in the appropriate locations. Then all the information goes in the source. If there is something I think I need to h

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
I do also include the Census as an event. For any given census, I often have, as events, the census, the residence, and the occupation. Elizabeth C Jenny M Benson wrote: Elizabeth Cunningham wrote This keeps the census a source, not an event. Of course, we are all free to do thing

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Claire Spinelli
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janis Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:08 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I put the exact date in the date field, too. But wouldn't it sometimes be hand

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Mary Figgins
ning a clock that has nothing to do with his residence. michele - Original Message - From:MaryFiggins To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:14AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I put items such

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Jenny M Benson
Elizabeth Cunningham wrote This keeps the census a source, not an event. Of course, we are all free to do things our own way, but if we bear in mind that Legacy often refers to Events/Facts rather than just Events, I think it makes easier to see why some of use treat things like Censuses not

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Michele Lewis
residence. michele - Original Message - From: Mary Figgins To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I put items such as tax rolls and census with the event - residence - and the source as

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Mary Figgins
day, February 13, 2008 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names >I don't consider Tax Rolls (or for that matter the US Census) as events; >imho they are merely sources for the information they contain about certain >aspects of an individual's life (place of residen

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
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Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Michele Lewis
overlook possible records. michele - Original Message - From: "Wynthner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I don't consider Tax Rolls (or for that matter the US Census) as events;

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Jack Earnshaw
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph (Ragweed) Sent: 14 February 2008 11:01 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names If I may interject my thought here. I find this rather interesting. When I think of England,

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Dermot McGlone
As this is getting off-topic, I'm not going to respond directly to Joseph here (as it's a long story), but, Joseph, you haven't quite grasped the details of the politics, geography, Etc., of the United Kingdom or the British Isles. Don't worry about not getting it though, it is quite complicated.

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread ronald ferguson
bject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:48 -0600 > > > If I may interject my thought here. I find this rather interesting. > > When I think of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Australia, > New Zealand etc., I think of individually gove

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Roberts
Point taken! I will amend my Census entries forthwith. Cheers, Jan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 7:38:PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Joseph (Ragweed)
If I may interject my thought here. I find this rather interesting. When I think of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand etc., I think of individually governed countries within a single nation unit. In example the British Isles. When I see the term Britai

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Fry
Janis Gilmore wrote: I put the exact date in the date field, too. But wouldn't it sometimes be handy to be able to bookmark those who do not have an 1860 census event, or something of the sort? Isn't that what the Research Guidance is supposed to do? -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legac

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Fry
Jan Roberts wrote: Thanks Mike, Although I should point out that the set of CDs produced by the LDS Church is quite clearly labelled 1881 British Census and includes England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Royal Navy. Yes! That's because Americans think that Scotland & Irela

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I prefer to make my sources as below: MST 1816 Tax or MS Perry 1820 Census. Keeping each state together, then subdivisions, then date, finally what the document contains. I attach to the source in the text field a transcription (or photocopy) of it. This makes it easier to spot what you are missi

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-14 Thread Jan Roberts
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Fry Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 9:12:AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names Jan Roberts wrote: > No, because I add the date to the Date field - my resulting sentence then > reads blah blah blah in the 1851 B

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Janis Gilmore
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wynthner Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:02 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I don't consider Tax Rolls (or for that matter the US Census) as events; imho they are m

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Wynthner
59:02 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I would like your advice on event names. I am inputting tax rolls. Should I just put the event name as Tax Roll and then put all the details in other spots or should I put then entire name 1816 Mississippi Territorial Tax Roll 1820 Perry County,

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread ronald ferguson
/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:11:50 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyU

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Janis Gilmore
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:52 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names Janis Gilmore wrote >Having said that, however, I have considered the possible value of >changing my "Census" events to "1850 Census," "1860

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Fry
Jan Roberts wrote: No, because I add the date to the Date field - my resulting sentence then reads blah blah blah in the 1851 British Census. (British being in the Description field) To be exact, it's the Census of England & Wales. Scotland and Ireland, although held at the same time, are act

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Jan Roberts
, 14 February 2008 3:12:AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I started out using more specific Event Names, but have simplified. "Tax Roll" would be plenty for me. Having said that, however, I have considered the possible value of c

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Jenny M Benson
Janis Gilmore wrote Having said that, however, I have considered the possible value of changing my "Census" events to "1850 Census," "1860 Census," etc. Does anyone else do this? I don't consider including the year is necessary because I put the exact date in the Date field. I do, however, h

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Robert Carneal USA
y, February 13, 2008 7:59 AM To: Legacy E-Mail List Subject: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I would like your advice on event names. I am inputting tax rolls. Should I just put the event name as Tax Roll and then put all the details in other spots or should I put then entire name 1816 Mi

Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Jenny M Benson
Michele Lewis wrote Should I just put the event name as Tax Roll and then put all the details in other spots or should I put then entire name 1816 Mississippi Territorial Tax Roll 1820 Perry County, Mississippi Tax Roll Personally, I would use Tax Roll as the Event Name and the other informa

RE: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Janis Gilmore
yone else do this? Janis Walker Gilmore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:59 AM To: Legacy E-Mail List Subject: [LegacyUG] Advice on event names I would like your advice on event names. I am inputting

[LegacyUG] Advice on event names

2008-02-13 Thread Michele Lewis
I would like your advice on event names. I am inputting tax rolls. Should I just put the event name as Tax Roll and then put all the details in other spots or should I put then entire name 1816 Mississippi Territorial Tax Roll 1820 Perry County, Mississippi Tax Roll michele Legacy User