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From: "Rae Jean Hay" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Census report
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:27 -0500
References: <4.1.20000724094246.00a359d0@pop.mis.net>


From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
: Rae Jean Hay wrote:
: >I would like to create a report giving me a list of people including:
: >1. ID #
: >2. Name
: >3. City
: >4. Page #, Dwelling #, Family # (from Census entry)
: >What I cannot figure out is where to enter the information for item 4 in
: >order to create the report. This may not be possible in TMG4.0. Would
like
: >to be able to sort out individuals living in the same area. Most of my
: >maternal lines have been in Beaufort Co, NC for several hundred years -
so
: >lots of people end of being related one way or another. Want to create a
: >roadmap of neighbors using the census records - thus my interest in using
: >TMG data. I have thought of using the "Place Detail" field in my "Cens
1850"
: >tag but hoped there is a better way.
: >Since District, Township, etc boundaries changed, I thought this might be
a
: >way to see that a person stayed on the farm, so to speak.
:
: It is easy to get the first three, but the fourth is normally located
: either in the Source record or in the Citation Detail associated with the
: tag and Source. Basically, TMG isn't designed with this in mind, so you
: would have to resort to entering the census entry details in some field
: where it is not normally placed and that may mean entering the information
: twice. In my Census tags, I do not (normally) enter anything in the Memo
: field and that would be a reasonable place to place it that would allow
you
: easy access for printing a List of Events report. If you develop a sort
of
: short-hand entry of the census entry detail information, you could have
the
: data print almost in columnar form without a lost of extra key entry. You
: might also consider use of the Text Macro function (see TMG manual, p.
328)
: where you could enter a default tamplate for the detail data. Thus when
: entering the Memo field you would use the macro template to help keep the
: data in columnar form.

Lee ~
This is an example of how I normally use the Memo field in a "Cens 1850"
tag:
"in the home of Gain Peed [farmer] age 63 are Nancy K.? Peed age 54, Bryan
age 20, Harmon age 17, Phebe Jewell age 40, John B. F. Peed [laborer] age
23, Susan Peed age 20, Sydney D. Jewell age 15 {page 426b, Dwelling 1486,
Family 1496}"

With version 4.0a, I am planning to use the witness feature to link everyone
listed in the memo.

In looking at the manual, I noticed the "Lat.Long" field can also be used
for LDS temple data. This field could be used for my census information, if
I enter it this way:
P426B,D1486,F1496
never having used "Lat.Long", my concern is that I will end up with a
different "page, dwelling, family" for each entry - does this matter?

I must be using a different method of Census entry - maybe there is a better
way. For the 1850 Beaufort Co Census, I have over 60 dwelling/family groups
and there are more I have not entered. Is my method less or more time
consuming than the other methods people are using?
Rae Jean in Memphis




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