* Tracking BMD and Census Records

[ricm]

I have been using flags to help track birth, marriage, death and census records (as a minimum) for individuals. By checking the flags I can see at a glance where, for example, there is no record for a particular census year. Other information could be christening, burial, war service records, trade directories etc., but for the moment let's stick with the minumim set.

I have found this approach cumbersome: do I have 1 flag for the 1900's say or separate flags for Canadian, US, E&W, Scottish censuses etc., for example?

Being able to see 'completeness' of an individual's records is very useful. How do others do it? Is there a brilliantly simple system I am missing or is it very much a rat's nest??? If the latter should I post a wish list item for FH?

Thanks,
Ric

ID:4790

[arishmell]

I do it the same way, and don't find it at all cumbersome. I use white icons for E&W censuses, red for Canadian and blue for US. I do think it's important to distinguish them, especially as the US ones were in different years. You might find relatives in the US in 1900 and back home in the UK in 1901, which would not be obvious if you used one 1900s flag.

[tatewise]

Do you have a Source Citation for each completed Census Fact, but not for any outstanding Census Year?

If so try my Query Store > Queries > Kinsfolk Census Queries FHUG download.

It provides two Queries one for complete and one for incomplete sets of Census Records.
Currently, they are only designed to work for England & Wales Census Years but I suspect they could easily be extended for the other countries.
Give it a try it is free.