At 01:33 PM 6/27/01 -0500, Gladys See wrote: >Hi, >Thanks for helping us with our questions. I have two. > >1. Is there a way to keep the people of the same household in the order >that they are listed on the census form? >I become confused when they change to an alphabetical listing and become >intermixed with other families of the same name. Use the line number field in the census detail screen and the people will print in line number order. You can select if you want the people to print in line number or alphabetical order also from the Clooz Census Selection Screen. >2. What is the best way to handle census information when you have the >same year, state, & county but different townships? If any data in the blue part of the census form changes, you need to create a new document. If everything stays the same, you can add as many people as you want. >Thanks for a great organizational tool! I just wish it didn't seem >such an insurmountable task to enter all of the data I have accumulated >over time. There's no rush to finish! You can just add data for the project you're working on currently. If you look at the big picture it's frustrating, but if you just concentrate on one document at a time, you'll make progress. Liz Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.clooz.com Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com

A few questions about entering data from city directories: 1. What are you supposed to enter in the "H", "R", and "Bds" boxes on the detail form? I would have guessed "h", "r", and "bd" respectively, but they don't show up on the report. ("bds" won't fit in that box, anyway.) The values "x" (for an x-ed box) and "y" (for yes) don't print anything, either. 2. Shouldn't the default values for Surname and Given be the corresponding values from the People record (rather than blank) when the option to fill in the data from the previous detail form is not requested? 3. Do you use the Employed field for an address or the name of an employer? 3.1 If you use the Employed field for a work address when both work and home addresses are given, how do you treat an entry with a single address not marked as being a home address (which may then be work only or work and home)? 4. How do you record the fact the fact that you searched for a particular person in a directory but did not find an entry, as distinct from not having searched? 5. If you find a person in successive instances of the same directory, do you create one source record for each year or just one for the series? If the latter, it would certainly be handy to be able to build each year's source record from a previously entered record. 6. Since some census records bear street addresses, but Clooz does not display them in a People report, could you double-enter such a census as a directory listing to aid in tracking moves? --Mark R. Williamson