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From: Debi McGee Cundiff <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Census report
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:36:34 -0400
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Rae Jean,

I want to start this message with a sincere thanks to Diane Begeman for
the work she put into creating and publishing her census method. I use
it, but have added a couple of little twists. My families in Pinellas
County, Florida, stayed put and did much intermingling like you
described. I decided to input data for any family that I find which has
married into my primary families. Sometimes I don't know that they have
intermarried until several decades later. These modifications to Diane's
method allow me to find those families if I've seen them before and get
them added in the correct locations. Here's what I do.

First I create a birth tag for the census, showing the date the census
was supposed to occur on and make the sort date the same. From then on,
I use the next date in the sort field to place the families in order as
they appear on the census.

As John Ketcham suggested, I place the Dwelling, Family and Precinct
and/or Street in the Detail field. This causes them to appear in the
tag directly after the person's name.

Between each family, I place either a note or note-res (custom) tag. The
note tags contain only the census ID# in Principle 1 and a sort date of
+10 days from the last sort date used in the family just finished. When
I start the next family, I use the next date following the note day.
Only one note tag can be a primary tag.

The note-res(earch) tag is used at the start of each new page. The tag
contains a sort date which will place it in the correct location (use
the same date method as above), the census ID# in Principle 1, a minus
(-) sign and the ID# of the next head of household in Principle 2. The
ID# in Principle 2 will allow all of the note-res tags to be primary
tags. The "-" in Principle 2 will cause the name not to show up on the
tag in the person view. In the memo of these tags I type "Page ?
includes surnames ...." with all surnames which are on the page. This
gives me a way to search for surnames that are on the page, but that I
have not input detailed information for. I use a list of events report
with the focus set to memo contains [?]. When I run the report, I key
the surname I'm looking for. It returns a list of note-res tags that
include that surname.

After I have input all the persons on the census that I'm going to, I
remove the primary marker on each tag with the exception of those for my
direct ancestors and the note-res tags. By doing that I can press the
"Primary Tag Only" button (the little hourglass with an asterisk "*") to
cause all the tags to disappear, except those of my ancestors and the
memos about who else is on the page.

Hopefully all that makes sense. If not, please ask questions.

Debi McGee Cundiff

Lake County, Florida
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John Ketcham wrote:
>
> 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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