Source Fields for Federal Census Data

[Richard Kennedy]

I am new to Reunion 12 and I would appreciate any help the community can offer on the following topic.

The information for citing a source record in the Federal Census would include the year, the state, the county, the city/township/institution/unincorporated place, the Enumeration District, the Sheet Number and Line Numbers. There is also information for recording the physical source of the information (e.g., Microfilm numbers, etc.). I noticed that the default source fields for Reunion Census source records do not include these. What is the best practice for recording Federal Census information in a Reunion source?

[Jan Powell]

I am new to Reunion 12 and I would appreciate any help the community can offer on the following topic.

The information for citing a source record in the Federal Census would include the year, the state, the county, the city/township/institution/unincorporated place, the Enumeration District, the Sheet Number and Line Numbers. There is also information for recording the physical source of the information (e.g., Microfilm numbers, etc.). I noticed that the default source fields for Reunion Census source records do not include these. What is the best practice for recording Federal Census information in a Reunion source?

Hello Richard

FWIW, here's a pic of how I do mine:

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Cheers
Jan

[AE Palmer]

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According to Evidence Explained the following fields (and their order) for a US Federal Census (digital copy) are: Census ID
Jurisdiction (location)
Schedule
Civil Division (local location)
Page ID (number plus ‘stamped’ or ‘penned’)
Household ID (dwelling #, family #)
Person(s) of interest
Type or Format
Website Title
URL – Digital location
Date (found)
Credit line (source of this source) (microfilm info)

These are all Custom Reunion Source fields and can be easily created via the Preferences panel under SOURCES.

[Bob White]

And if you are a minority opinion person such as myself who prefers to document sources in the notes section, I have a pre-formatted entry that I store in a clip manager app. I just paste it into Notes and then fill in the blanks. It is:

Federal Census: Year: NNNN Place: aaa, aaa, aaa Roll: NNN Page: NNN District: NN Image: XXXX;

A completed item would look like this: Federal Census: Year: 1930; Place: Oroville, Butte, California; Roll: 113; Page: 30A; District: 35; Image: 284.0.

My thinking is to give whoever sees this sufficient info to locate the proper sheet for either verifying my work or to fill in further details.

[mrstucci]

I do something similar to what Bob White does. I have tried to keep it as simple as I can. I have a source number for all the different census'-federal, state, Canadian and England. I also created a flag for the census'. When I go to enter census info on the person's card I put in the correct source number and then in TextExpander I have a keyboard shortcut and it pastes the different parts of the census like Bob had in his reply. I fill that out, copy it, move on to the next part and put the year in for the census, the census place and then in the Memo area I put in the info for that person-like head, wife, etc. and just keep typing in the info. The last thing I do is to check the flag for that census. All my actual census' are stored in Evernote. This is working for me.