Where should residence be added for families -- individuals or at the family level?

[DrJJWMac]

I have a residence for my grandparents and all the grandchildren at a specific date by a census record. What is the best or most common convention to add this event (Residence)? Add the residence to the family or add the residence to each person separately? Adding to the family is easier than adding to the individuals. But, is the residence of a person in a family visible as an individual historical record event, for example in reports about that person?

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JJW

[KirkS]

I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a tip if you decide to enter the same event for multiple individuals.

See my reply to this question:

https://www.reuniontalk.com/forum/using-reunion-14/99701-quick-method-to-add-children-details#post99703

[Miss Myrtle]

I only enter events at the individual level other than the marriages. I'm not sure family events always transfer via GEDCOM if needed. Better safe than sorry. As Kirk said, it's a simple matter of copy and paste.

[DrJJWMac]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

As background, I have only started the process to input Residence information. Eventually, I want to be able to select one person in a family and report their history. I want to know now whether I can avoid having to enter Residence information for every family member individually simply by putting that Residence information in the family.

I want to avoid the need to track down every single person in the household and doing a copy+paste of Residence. Not because the copy+paste is difficult (albeit tedious). But rather because, for each Residence, I am including both a media content (e.g. a picture of the house and location map) as well as a source (e.g. the census for the given year). The find+copy+paste method does not copy over the media, only the source (hence my request in a separate thread that Places be allowed to include Media content).

I am also not interested in what is or is not propagated in GEDCOM. I want to create historical reports as readable documents, for example to post to my siblings. Take my great grandparents with their son (my grandfather). I would like to enter that my great grandparents lived in XYZ in 1880 with their 3 yr old son and, when I report about my grandfather, find that his record shows his residence at XYZ when he was 3 yrs old. And I would like to do so without having to also find my grandfather and enter his residence as a 3 yr old as a separate action.

In summary, to help clarify the focus, my question is about how Reunion handles Residence information for an individual in a family when we put the Residence on a family record rather than on the individual and when we intend later to make a historical report about a specific member of that family.

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JJW