TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2003-10 > 1065123146


From: "Don MacFarlane" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] TIP OF THE DAY: Incomplete Data
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 15:32:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000001c38878$3d524240$4402a8c0@Cheasa>


Teresa,

I took a different approach.

I created a flag for each census (mine are mostly Canadian)
C1841
C1851
C1861
Etc.

Each flag has four values
? unknown (default)
Y individual found in the census, data recorded
N individual searched for but not found in census (with notes on search)
X individual not on this census

I filtered my project in various ways to select those who would NOT be on
the census, date of birth or death, place living at the time of census,
etc., and then created a report of the filtered list of people with the
secondary output of changing the particular census flag value to X. This
eliminated great chunks of individuals and let me concentrate a targeted
group.

When I am working on a particular census I can filter the project for just
those individuals whose flag has a value of ? or N. As I go down the list
of individuals there are still those who the filtering missed, I change
their flag to X as I come across them.

Having a flag for each census also quickly shows me a gap in my data, for
example if I have data for C1851 and C1871 it seems reasonable to assume the
individual was probably in the C1861 census somewhere.

Regards,
Don MacFarlane

-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Ghee Elliott [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 8:01 PM
To:
Subject: [TMG] TIP OF THE DAY: Incomplete Data

For years now, I have been trying to find everyone on every census that
they lived during. Finding out who I still needed census data for was
such a pain. Then I decided to create a new role for my census tags
called Incomplete Data. The sentence is currently " - -" for English
(since I tend to use English for journal reports and I don't want blank
or empty tags to print.) and

"[:CR:][:CR:][BOLD:]1790 Federal population census:[:BOLD]
[:CR:]Enumeration Date: < [D]>[:CR:]Enumerated < [L]> [:CR:]Census
Information Not Found [R:Incomplete Data]" for TABULAR. (Since I use
TABULAR for research, and I would want the information to print.)

Now when I find someone that I still haven't found on the census, I can
create a tag and give them the role Incomplete Data. When I need to
make a list of people that I still need to find on the 1850 census, I
merely have to search for everyone with the role Incomplete Data, and I
can then print their IN (using Tabular) and I can take that with me to
research.

This blank role might not be for everyone, but I am finding it very
useful and thought I would share.



Teresa Ghee Elliott

For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries
www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org

For TMG sentences

www.tmgsentences.home-page.org







==== TMG Mailing List ====
The Wholly Genes FAQ page
<http://www.whollygenes.com/faq1/fom-serve/cache/1.html>; has information not
only about TMG and how to obtain it, but helpful hints on using it.





This thread: