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From: "John Ketcham" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Census report
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:22:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: <009e01bffcae$60497880$a9c3d6d1@oemcomputer>


Rae Jean,

You might want to check out Bob Kingsley's article "Recording Census Data"
in TMG News, Vol 2, No 4 and Vol 3, No 1, way back in Spring 1996 (which can
be downloaded from the TMG website, files area). I find Bob's method
preferable to Begeman's because it does not take up as much screen space,
and captures the info from the census. You might want to experiment with
using the location detail for dwelling/family number. I don't have TMG in
front of me to see, but under the "Census person" it may well sort the
households by location, potentially by dwelling/family. You could certainly
generate reports with that info. Hope this helps.

John Ketcham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rae Jean Hay [mailto:]
> Subject: Re: [TMG] Census report
>
>
> Ken ~
> Checked out the sites for Begeman's method last night. Although very
> detailed, I did not see that it would give me the type of
> information I
> desire to create a road map of those living in a particular
> area in a census
> year - the dwelling/family (and maybe page) is the sort I
> need for each
> census year in Beaufort Co, NC. Since so many of my maternal
> families stayed
> there, my dataset is almost a one County study instead of a
> one Name study.
> When I combine the Census information with deeds, I get a
> better idea of who
> moved and where and who didn't. As Lee said, TMG was not
> designed with this
> in mind. But maybe....
> Your suggestion gives me an excellent example of what is possible.
> Rae Jean in Memphis
>
>


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