For Event/Fact, you can record Census (Family), Resided (Family), Event (Family). How many use these, and why? Bill

I do, but only recently. It has become one of my favorite features. When you do something with "Family" it puts in a corresponding entry for the spouse so you only have to enter the information once and both are covered. Just be sure the information actually applies to both, but if it does, you should be good to go! SE

In message <20190303030542.14001.41254@mmlive.rootsweb.com>, searnhardt8@hotmail.com writes: >I do, but only recently. It has become one of my favorite features. >When you do something with "Family" it puts in a corresponding entry >for the spouse so you only have to enter the information once and both >are covered. Just be sure the information actually applies to both, >but if it does, you should be good to go! >SE [] (And thanks Bill for mentioning that Event, as well as Resided and Census, has a family option too; I hadn't noticed that.) Pictures and Media can also have a family setting, and this has the same effect. And Notes. (Sadly not - yet? - to-do items.) The use of the word "Family" may be the source of some of your (Bill's) confusion: a better (IMO) description is "Couple". After I requested it, JS added an option (I forget where) for BK to use the word Couple instead of Family in (I think!) all these places. [The example I give is a picture of a child with his parents: to me, that's a "Family" picture, but if I denote it as such under the child, it also appears under his [subsequent] wife, where it isn't relevant; calling it a "Couple" picture makes things clearer. IMO.] I would add to searnhardt8's exhortation "Just be sure the information actually applies to both": ensure you have the _right_ couple selected - by which I mean the right spouse. If a person has more than one spouse, and you have a Family/Couple event (e. g. resided, census) that relates to a second or subsequent spouse (such as where he lived with his second wife), make sure the second spouse is showing when you add the event. This is particularly relevant if you switch away from the person and then back: as it stands at present, switching away from a person and then back, in BK, will always come back with the _first_ spouse, even if you had the second selected before you switched. So it's very easy to add events/pictures to (partly) the wrong couple. [JS said a while back that he'd look into fixing this, but it has gone quiet; I presume it's difficult to fix, and/or would give backward-compatibility problems with the back/forward people buffer.] If you _do_ make such a mistake, you don't have to delete and re-enter the event/picture (which is tedious if, for example, you have lengthy notes and/or complex sources for it): just make sure you have the common individual at the head, change the event/picture to the individual form, select the other spouse, and change the event/picture back to Family/Couple. You can even do this if it isn't a family/couple event, but relates to one of multiple spouses - say you'd added where she lived, but had added it to the wrong wife: you change it to family/couple, select the common partner, change it to individual, select the other spouse, change it to family/couple, switch to that spouse, and change it back to individual. That sounds more complicated than it is, and can save a lot of typing! (Say you'd included a lengthy note of why you know she lived there for a Resided, or included a long list of who's who for a group picture.) Hope that helps some people. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Get off my turf!" screamed Pooh, as he shot at Paddington.

Census is a tag that tells a situation av a certain date. It is not for us a spesific event but a part of the sours to tell situation. We use cesus a documentation, ut by it is noe av event for a person. We use census as a Source telling appprox. data of birth, relationship, addresses etc We use eg. every census we find to be a part of the history of a person. As the census are not byus, each year it is status for a persin, eg. at 1865, 1875, 1891, 2000, 2010 etc --- hilsen/regards Otto -#- Den 03.03.2019 03:06, skrev Bill Webster: > For Event/Fact, you can record Census (Family), Resided (Family), Event > (Family). How many use these, and why? > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search [1] > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref [2] > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com [3] > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY [4] Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 [5] > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog [6] > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community Links: ------ [1] http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search [2] http://bit.ly/rootswebpref [3] https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com [4] https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY [5] https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 [6] http://rootsweb.blog

Resided (family). I use the census as a SOURCE for the date of residence I enter the date as Circa YYYY. It's interesting to see surnames of neighbors that sometimes, somewhere along the line, become somehow related. I recommend caution for census records. There are often errors, mistakes, and misspellings. Ages are not always calculated consistent with the specific instructions. I've seen some where a page-full of entries appears to be written at the same time and I would guess probably from notes of the actual interviews. These rewritten entries are prone to contain errors as well. I found one census in which a widow was residing with one of her sons when the enumerator visited the household on 8 June 1900. A week later on 15 June 1900 a different enumerator recorded her as residing with a different son at a different address (in the same city). I found another census (1860) in which a daughter was listed with her family in one town, while she was also listed with another (unrelated) family in a different (but nearby) city and I presumed she was a boarder. This is only a working theory at this point; I'm still looking for information to confirm or refute the theory. Roy Marriott On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 9:07 PM Bill Webster <wbwebster@internode.on.net> wrote: > > For Event/Fact, you can record Census (Family), Resided (Family), Event > (Family). How many use these, and why? > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community