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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
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
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:52:37 -0700
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> 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).
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
Family Tree at:
> http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
> For The Fergusons of N.W. England See:
> http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/
> _____
>
>
>
>
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[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
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
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
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
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Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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The point is that it doesn't matter who gave the information.
Whoever gave it would be Witness #1.
As
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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
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Templeman
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:55 AM
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From: "Janis Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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I am a splitter, although I split less with the new Source Writer. I am
tru
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Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 7:29 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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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
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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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
just truly
curious.)
Janis
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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
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
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
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
f Of Mary Young
Sent: 05 July 2008 11:38
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
David wrote:
> The real question was if someone asked me where it was, how would I
search
> my Legacy database? I don
: Friday, July 4, 2008 6:57:45 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!
Re: TMG witnesses on a census. I don't know the purpose in other countries,
but in the US this decennial enumeration is (supposedly) done for the
purpose of creating voting di
David wrote:
> The real question was if someone asked me where it was, how would I search
> my Legacy database? I don't think I can search sources for 'The Lowe' in
> Legacy.
Yes, you can! But there are 10 fields in Sources, so it can be tedious.
Don't use the Magnifying Glass icon search.
In t
Jenny
I don't worry about "resources" that is what modern computers are for.
Reports are saved to pdf and emailed. Chacun a son gout.
I guess we have to agree to differ.
Mary
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David wrote:
> Oh no, Mary. Does this mean you are deserting the 'extreme splitters club'.
> Only me and Ward Walker left!! :-)
I only said "might" ! (offered as a sop to the extreme lumpers).
Mary
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Young
Sent: 04 July 2008 22:30
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
On 7/4/08, Elizabeth Richar
: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Mary Young wrote
>it's no more difficult to access 500 or 5,000 Sources than 220 - if
>they're sensibly named.
Of course it's not - perhaps a fraction more time-consuming - but what a
waste of resources!
alf 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 publication that mentioned 2 of your relatives on page
6,
> one on page 150
Bruce McArthur wrote
In TMG each part of the address has a name e.g. village, city or county
and you can have different names for different parts of the address
depending on the country you are dealing with. In Legacy you can put
anything anywhere and you could end up with a place being at se
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Sent: 04 July 2008 20:28
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
IMHO (unless you intend academic publishing) none of this really
matters. As long as you are consistent and you get
Mary Young wrote
it's no more difficult to access 500 or 5,000 Sources than 220 - if
they're sensibly named.
Of course it's not - perhaps a fraction more time-consuming - but what a
waste of resources! The program needs more memory to handle the bulk,
the hard disk needs more space to store
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Sent: 04 July 2008 23:22
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Mary Young wrote
>I'm an extreme splitter.
>I rarely use Source Detail, and never the same Deta
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ferguson
Sent: 04 July 2008 21:07
To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
David,
Re Census Sources. You are just about right, Master Sources by Cou
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Sent: Friday, July 4, 2008 6:57:45 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!
Re: TMG witnesses on a census. I don't know the purpose in other countries,
but in the US this decennial enu
Hi
Just to clarify what I meant by "unstructured address".
In TMG each part of the address has a name e.g. village, city or county and
you can have different names for different parts of the address depending on
the country you are dealing with. In Legacy you can put anything anywhere
and yo
On 7/4/08, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> So if you found a publication that mentioned 2 of your relatives on page 6,
> one on page 150 and 3 on page 175 would you have 3 different Master Sources
> for that one issue of that publication?
Alas mine were all poor folk, so this hasn't happened yet!
I would
2008 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Hi
This is my first ever posting to this list and I don't even use Legacy but
have always used TMG. I do however own Legacy V7 and I like the program
but it would be too much work to move fr
Mary Young wrote
I'm an extreme splitter.
I rarely use Source Detail, and never the same Detail to more than one
Individual.
So if you found a publication that mentioned 2 of your relatives on page
6, one on page 150 and 3 on page 175 would you have 3 different Master
Sources for that one is
One reason I like lumping census sources at the county level is that I can
click on a county and see all the people who live in that county all
together. This is handy when I am studying migration patterns and when I'm
searching for a widow or orphan family to merge into the fold.
Lumping becomes
> I positively quail at the thought of having a separate Master Source for
> every location for every Census - it would run into hundreds.
Or maybe thousands in my case. But not for every place and every year
- it's a restricted set which works for my peculiar purposes.
> With regard to your poin
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> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
> question!
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:20:07 +0100
>
> Hi
>
> This is my first ever posting to this list and I don't even use Legacy but
> have
Bruce McArthur wrote
This is my first ever posting to this list and I don't even use Legacy
but have always used TMG. I do however own Legacy V7 and I like the
program but it would be too much work to move from TMG.
I'm intrigued! You have a copy of a program you don't use and you join
its
On 7/4/08, Elizabeth Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you use the location field when entering the census event?
Yes, I always use Location - often 5 or 6 of the fields to pinpoint
the place. I need to know exactly where people were!
If there's a census entry with Location, I don't bother
IMHO (unless you intend academic publishing) none of this really
matters. As long as you are consistent and you get the output you
want.
If someone asks
> "by the way, do you have links with a place called 'The Lowe'? I'm afraid I
> don't know much else about it".
> How do I check?
It's a Locat
Hi
This is my first ever posting to this list and I don't even use Legacy but
have always used TMG. I do however own Legacy V7 and I like the program but
it would be too much work to move from TMG. One of the reasons for this is
that, because of the way TMG handles witnesses, only the head o
David wrote
> Perhaps the search feature is something else I need a refresher on.
Me too, David!
I'm an extreme splitter.
I rarely use Source Detail, and never the same Detail to more than one
Individual.
Can't find the darn things again :-)
Mary the Bemused
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music-line wrote
I may be wrong, but I think he might even use '1901, England' as a
Master Source with everything else as Detail.
I certainly do!
I positively quail at the thought of having a separate Master Source for
every location for every Census - it would run into hundreds. Good
datab
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> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
> question!
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:21:07 +0100
>
> Thanks for the reply Kirsten.
>
> I am only an occasional user and
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Bowman
Sent: 04 July 2008 17:00
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
David:
Why would you have to be "setting up the
William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson
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From: "music-line" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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Thanks for the reply Kirsten.
I am only an occasiona
.
Kirsten
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Walker
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:21 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Hi David,
If it is any comfort, I also started out
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music-line
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 7:21 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
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Since the Legacy 7 update with the new Census templates
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Sent: 04 July 2008 16:21
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the
question!
Hi David,
If it is any comfort, I also started out intuitively as an extreme splitter,
"music-line" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 10:21 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Census - To split or not to split, that is the question!
Since the Legacy 7 update with the new Census templates for England, I have
had a little look, but now get the impression that
Since the Legacy 7 update with the new Census templates for England, I have
had a little look, but now get the impression that I may be alone in using
my 'maximum splitting' system for sources.
The new templates, by the way the defaults are set out, imply that a census
Master Source should be iden
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