* Create new template - Electoral Roll

[Valkrider]

Is there a way to create a new template for Ancestral Sources for other than a census?

The reason for asking is that I have found a whole load of electoral register entries that list households just the same as a census does and it would certainly make entering them easier using Ancestral Sources rather than creating individual residence facts in Family Historian.

[tatewise]

It would be worth a try, but there are a few caveats.

By default AS would create a Census Event as the primary fact, but in Tools > Options > Census settings you can choose Residence fact instead, but must remember to correct that setting for Census versus Electoral Roll. Also you would need to change the Source Type appropriately.

Otherwise, I suspect it would work.

[Valkrider]

Mike

The problem is that if you create a new census template it requires a date for the template, of course with an electoral roll you would want to input the date not have a fixed date. Any thoughts?

[tatewise]

The Template needs a Year but will accept 0000 to differentiate from actual Census years.
So maybe UK 0000 will be the UK Electoral Roll template.

Then in the Create Census page you can edit the Census Date.
Also edit the Title and Ref Id, etc, or in the Options change the Template.

[Valkrider]

Thanks for the suggestion Mike I will give it a go.

[RSellens]

Mike

The problem is that if you create a new census template it requires a date for the template, of course with an electoral roll you would want to input the date not have a fixed date. Any thoughts?

What I have found is that if you go to the front of the 'book' for the UK electoral rolls it has a full date (normally in October) when the results were collected, so that's the date I used on my templates.


Richard

[Valkrider]

Mike

The Template needs a Year but will accept 0000 to differentiate from actual Census years.
So maybe UK 0000 will be the UK Electoral Roll template.

That works fine.

Then in the Create Census page you can edit the Census Date.
Also edit the Title and Ref Id, etc, or in the Options change the Template.

This bit is the problem you must input a date for the 'census' and it must be a valid date not 0000. This therefore means creating 10's of templates one for each year unless I have missed something.

What I have found is that if you go to the front of the 'book' for the UK electoral rolls it has a full date (normally in October) when the results were collected, so that's the date I used on my templates.

@Richard so have you a template for each year then?

[tatewise]

Yes, unfortunately you have to choose a valid Year and a valid full Date in the Template, but in the Census grid page you can change the Date to any full date you like. So in the Template choose a Year such as 1000 and enter a Date such as 1 JAN 1000, then change the Date when the Census/Electoral data is entered in the Census grid page.

BTW: I discovered a Year with leading zeros such as 0000 or 0010 is not acceptable later on because it becomes 0 or 10 and says You must select or enter a year when you Save after any change to the columns.

[RSellens]

@Richard so have you a template for each year then?

Hi Colin, no I have only created rough templates for the few London rolls that I have found people on so far,

Richard