I am happy to leave any decision re the future to Nick. For most it is only when (like us) you become a genealogy junky that you start making increasing demands on yourself for accuracy etc! HOWEVER - I fully appreciate that if you bring out a version based on the above someone will say why cannot you make a selection in AS against an individual.Īs I said in my previous post, people using FH and AS (and other software) have a range of skill levels and place different demands on themselves re accuracy based on those skills and what they want to achieve. I would be happy to just have this option as another alternative to the current either/or alternative because both AS and FH already allow for the source note to contain a qualification and I could always add another note in FH if I wanted. I realise that there is always a balance and that includes balancing a complicated interface for the user (all types)against accuracy and balancing a service to the user against programming challenges. It has now developed into a very sophisticated tool and having previously contributed (modestly!) to the costs I would openly declare that, when you turn this into a piece of wholly commercial software, I will be one of your first customers! Enough flattery!Īs regards Nick's options, either would do for me. When I did first discover it I posted that I only wished I had found it sooner!! I must first of all say to Nick that I have used both versions of your programme since I first discovered it. If it is not possible I would like to add it to the 'wish list'. I did not know if it was already possible to do this and that is why I asked. All I am saying is that as there is already an either/or option for recording it as Census or Residence it would be of value (and relatively simple programming-wise) to have an option of recording it as both. I am not saying that all persons should record their information in the same way. I believe that the person processing the data and recording it in FH/AS as part of their research is capable of reaching a reasonable conclusion as to the validity of the entry they are making and can also make their own decision to qualify it if it is in doubt - if that is what they wish. It depends what each of us wants from the records we are making. ![]() If the Head of a household has a wife or young child listed in that form I believe it is reasonable to assume that this too is their residence.Īll entries require an assessment of their accuracy and some of us are more accurate (or pedantic) than others. I would also say that it is completely reasonable to 'assume' that, if a person is shown there as the Head of the household, that he/she is resident there. So for example when I know that I had relatives who lived in Sumner Street Crompton in 1901 and I find a Census record for them in that street for that year I am satisfied that the record shows not only where they were that day but that this was their residence. ![]() I record the residence as a fact when I know it was the residence. When I record ANY information which is not 100% certain I make that clear in the entry I make.įH and AS allow for Notes and an Assessment of the source and any doubts about the permanence of a person's residence can be included either in the AS Notes when the Census info is being completed or later directly into the FH entry. I am afraid that Mike is assuming that I record the info under residence as a fact when I do not know it is a fact. ![]() So the people you mentioned staying at place X would have the residence event unticked but the rest of the household ticked? Or would you be happy if it just created Census and Residence for everyone so that you can delete the residence events if they don't apply? What makes this more difficult is that presumably you need the facility for each individual in the household to tick whether a residence event should be created or not. Having said that, I have very frequently added features to Ancestral Sources (and previously Gedcom Census) that I wouldn't recommend using. Better to record the facts, and allow the person reading your data to make their own minds up as to what that might mean. What possible benefit does also recording it as a residence give you? If you had an individual who happened to always be staying at their parent's house on census night every 10 years you might wrongly assume they lived there. By using the census fact you are recording that they were there on census night, and of course there is a good chance this is their residence too. Recording it as a census fact says everything that needs to be said. ![]() You are looking at a census record and making your decision that this is therefore their residence but as Mike says this is just an inference.
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