Thanks to Jan, Lorna, Adrian and Eric (inside information) for their input on this subject. Seemingly, the registers can easily reflect a false situation as in the 1960s in my case. Jane Merkel -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] Im Auftrag von Jane Merkel via Gesendet: Montag, 30. November 2015 15:19 An: 'Jan Murphy'; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Betreff: Re: [FHU] Entering from electoral role Hello Jan This was interesting reading form me; I always thought that the qualifying address was the place where the person lives. This possible discrepancy would perhaps explain a mystery concerning the house where I lived in as a child: Apart from my parents, there was another man registered at "our" qualifying address. After a couple of years, a further name was added, the man's wife presumably. This man and his wife were definitely not living in our house and the names mean nothing to me i.e. not family or friends of my parents. I now wonder if this man was the owner of the house and that my parents were renting. Is there anyone who could comment on this? I have a further question regarding the electoral role, never having lived in England as an adult: Does one has to register every year or does one remain registered at a certain address until the registration is actively cancelled when, for example, one moves house? Jane Merkel #14968 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] Im Auftrag von Jan Murphy via Gesendet: Samstag, 28. November 2015 01:49 An: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Betreff: Re: [FHU] Entering from electoral role A caution for FH users who (like me) are relatively inexperienced at using Electoral Rolls -- often the qualifying address that gave someone the right to vote is not the same as the property at which they resided. It pays to scroll up to the top of the image and read the column headers, so that if you plan to enter a residence fact, you are looking at the proper column in the Electoral Roll. I have collected quite a few images, but I haven't yet determined which fact to use to enter the ownership of the qualifying property when it is not the same as the abode. I do want to keep track of those addresses as well, because they can be valuable clues about a family's migration or to identify that this is the individual you want in a group of same-name search results. Jan Murphy On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:13 AM, John Ellis via < family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi > I'm entering information from the electoral role for a family. > > Normally I would use residence for this purpose. I normally copy the > residence fact to each of the people living at that address > > However, I note that the sentence template now reads: "{date} > {individual} lived at {address} {place} <with {other=resident}>"; I've > added the address field. > > What I don't understand is how the "<with {other=resident}>" part of > the sentence template works. Where do you enter the "Other Resident" e.g. > husband and wife at the same address. > > Many thanks > > John > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message