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US State census

Post by ColinMc » 02 Nov 2022 11:42

I have a New York State census for 1915 to input, and I used a copy of the 1910 US census as a starting point to save keystrokes.

As I understand it, State censuses may well differ from State to state, so I would want to identify my new Census Template in some way to identify it as a NY one. I tried entering "1915 NY" as the year, which seems to work perfectly other than not letting me automatically set a date for the census in the template - which is easily worked around.

Has anyone other suggestions as to work round this issue
Colin McDonald - Researching McDonald, McGillivray, Tait, Rountree families

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Post by tatewise » 02 Nov 2022 11:59

When you create the Census Template why not set the Region to 'USA New York' and similarly for all other states.
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Re: US State census

Post by NickWalker » 02 Nov 2022 12:31

Yes I'd recommend using a different region as Mike suggests. That's the reason why I changed the name of the drop-down to Region rather than Country :)
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Re: US State census

Post by ColinMc » 02 Nov 2022 13:00

So obvious once someone suggests it.

Thanks to both of you
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