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From: David Ball <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Data Entry Question
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:21:55 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
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> How would you handle this?
>
> Known Facts:
>
> Head of house's name, city, county, and state of residence as of a
> certain date.
> Household consists of:
> 1 free white male over 16
> 2 free white males under 16
> 3 females
> 1 other free person
> 7 slaves
>

I wouldn't use TMG for the whole 1790 census, but would use a database
software, such as Access, so I could sort or filter on any combination of
the columns. That way I could also add a cross-reference field as I
connected a family from the census to a TMG family in my project. Hey...,
surprise, surprise, that is what I do for my New England Ball Project <g>.
Except I only have 245 families to deal with, since most of the
high-concentration Ball states are lost for 1790, so I can get by using
Excel. I also added a column that totals the people.

Dave Ball

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