I have a census and it relates to two parents and their children.
However, in the events it does not show up under the childrens names.
How do you link an event like this to a whole family and not just the couple?
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I assume you mean you have found a family on the Census - in which case I recommend you download Nick Walker's gedcom programme from this site in downloads - it makes entering census information easy (and the new version is just out). You have to enter the names of all the family into FH first but nothing else, and then run gedcom and it will automate all the information you can get out of the census in one hit.
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Most people avoid the use of the Family Census record for this reason.
The problem with children is that in 1841 they might be with parents and by 1871 they will not be. Family Census events are associated with a persons family as spouse record.
The problem with children is that in 1841 they might be with parents and by 1871 they will not be. Family Census events are associated with a persons family as spouse record.
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Hi Adam
Just to expand on this a little, when I first started to use Family Historian, I assumed I would be able to use the family census event too. However, I soon realised that this wouldn't work for the reasons Jane mentions. A 'family' changes from census to census as children are born, leave home, die, etc. The only solution then is to create a census event for each individual. Also some of these individuals will have occupations recorded so occupation attributes need to be recorded for them. In addition the census can allow you to create birth records for people as you can calculate an approximate year of birth and place of birth. Even with the useful copy/paste events feature in FH I realised it would take ages to do this, hence writing Gedcom Census. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do manually in Family Historian, but it does away with a lot of the tedious event/attribute/source/citation creation and helps to speed up the whole process quite dramatically.
Best wishes
Just to expand on this a little, when I first started to use Family Historian, I assumed I would be able to use the family census event too. However, I soon realised that this wouldn't work for the reasons Jane mentions. A 'family' changes from census to census as children are born, leave home, die, etc. The only solution then is to create a census event for each individual. Also some of these individuals will have occupations recorded so occupation attributes need to be recorded for them. In addition the census can allow you to create birth records for people as you can calculate an approximate year of birth and place of birth. Even with the useful copy/paste events feature in FH I realised it would take ages to do this, hence writing Gedcom Census. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do manually in Family Historian, but it does away with a lot of the tedious event/attribute/source/citation creation and helps to speed up the whole process quite dramatically.
Best wishes
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OOPs - I had just blanked out the use of a family census event - did not see the point of it - so it did not occur to me that was an option in my reply!