How do others enter census data?
I have seen on webinars (and I can't remember who) that people type all the information that is contained in a census. Is there a way to copy/paste this information or must it be keystroked in? and once you have it typed where do you store it -- in notes for head of household? add to each person mentioned notes? Or am I making work for myself that I don't need?
My preferred method is to extract the data, type it in word by word. I have on a time or two (or more, sighhh), just copied/pasted what shows up in the index from our friends at Ancestry dot com or FamilySearch, or Heritage Quest, etc.
ReplyDeleteI do minimal events, the majority of my work goes into the general notes of the individual. I do not do census events.
For you, to not have an event for each census may seem absurd. For me, it feels normal and is my choice. I happen to like the way it prints out in reports.
I usually type the census transcripts into the general notes of the person I am researching. Sometimes I am chasing, for example, a Lashbrook female. Her hubby comes along, but, my primary interest is in her descendants. So my transcript goes in her general notes.
I always urge users/researchers to play with the fields, and resulting reports/printouts. What do you like and what don't you.
Have fun, play with it.
The way I do it (from Geoff's webinar's on legacy family tree) is open the source clipboard, make the source record, then add all the census info to the source detail notes section then I copy it, and save the source. Open an event and paste it in the event detail called census for the first person. then copy the event to the clipboard (right hand bottom side of event) and then start a new event and paste to each person in the household. and then source the info (source clipboard on left)
ReplyDeleteif it is confusing and you need help let me know I'll do screen shots
ReplyDeleteThe webinar of Geoff's on Legacy Family Tree was a huge help to me in doing these and any other events. I do tend to copy the data from the index on FamilySearch or Ancestry also but I do download a copy of it and have a spreadsheet with the minimum facts and a link to the census itself in my files.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Geoff's webinar is free if you're not a webinar subscriber and he has good screenshots, etc.
ReplyDeleteJill Scott The way I prefer is to have an Event called Census for each census year. It always goes in the head of household. The date is whatever the date is on the census, I record the place of the census in the Place field and I transcribe each person in the household starting with the head of household. Once the transcription is complete I add the source citation and then I share the event with the others in the household.
ReplyDeleteI did a blog post on my blog at http://shannonmthomas.blogspot.com/2015/04/c-is-for-census.html about my Census event. There are screenshots from my Legacy database.
If you have any questions let me know.
the Watch Geoff Live: Adding a Census Record is for members only...
ReplyDeleteJill Scott if you go to Tessa Keough's blog she also did a post about how she does her census records.
ReplyDeleteShannon Thomas, I extract and use the census like you do. I know some folks don't like to use the shared washable feature, but I have no problems with it.
ReplyDeleteLol. Sorry about autocorrect. I know of no washable features in Legacy...yet.
ReplyDeleteWhen I copy census data into Legacy, I use two computers or my computer and iPad and use Dragon Speak software to input the data. That's a whole lot quicker than typing. Dragon Speak is very accurate.
ReplyDeleteThank you all. I like the way Shannon shows it -- that is sort of what I had in mind. I just have to reconcile myself to doing the keystrokes to accomplish what I want. -- I am a splitter - so that should explain some of the why.
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