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From: "Karen Rhodes" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Data set question -- I wanna lump
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:49:26 -0400
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On 1 Apr 2006 at 20:55, Teresa Elliott wrote:


> Lumping and splitting has to do mostly with how
> you handle sources. Do you have one source per
> household on a census, or one source per county?


One per household, which is dictated by the citation
format I've learned.

It's a format that lends itself to splitting. My philosophy
generally is not conducive to lumping. Therefore I'll
have the same source cited a number of times,
depending on how many of my family I've found in that
source. And I don't mind that a bit.


> I have one per household, with the source
> being how to find that household, and the
> repository being the census microfilm roll.


By me, the repository would be either the National
Archives, if I got the microfilm from them, or in the
case of certain Florida censuses, I would use as the
repository the Southern Genealogists Exchange
Society Library in Jacksonville. That's my local
society, and they hold a number of years of censuses
for Florida. The repository, to me, is the actual
building where the actual physical source for whatever
I obtained is located. That comes from me having
been a librarian. <smile>


> Most people just put that information into the source
> information. I prefer having it separate,
> because then I can see how many people
> are on a certain roll easily.


Could one set up a report which would be based on
the roll, and list all the people found on it? That's
more my speed.

Thanks for the discussion.

Karen Rhodes, IBSSG
(yup, me, too, though I don't participate on the list very
often)


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