Entering census events into Reunion 9 for Mac can be time consuming and error prone if you don’t use the copy and paste feature.
Census events often apply to multiple people in our genealogy databases. Fortunately, events and their associated source citations can be copied an pasted to other records within Reunion. This method of populating event data can be more efficient and result in fewer mistakes when used for event records that apply to more than one person, like censuses.
In this video: Copying Events in Macintosh Genealogy Software Reunion 9 for Mac, I show you, click-by-click, how to use this time saving and error preventing feature.
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Tres cool! You have just saved me a whole bunch of time.
—–===== Bill =====—–
Oh, my goodness how wonderful is this? Now, here I go sharing my lack of knowledge but I did not know anything about putting a census image in multi-media. Have you covered that somewhere? Once again, so appreciative of all I’ve learned from you in the last months.
ditto,ditto Bill guinon
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ditto, ditto Laurie
Ben, Im still lost with this new event on ths video, do not quite understand how to do this and the picture of the census.
Another great time saving tip. Thank You.
Betty Jane
A Gotcha and a Hint…
The Gotcha is that in order to be able to copy an event AND its associated sources, you have to have first saved the Person Card after entering the event details and attaching source(s) to it. If you copy the event before the first save of it the Sources won’t be included.
And if you highlight the line that is BEFORE where you want to paste the event in, the pasted event will appear after the highlighted line and so you won’t need to drag it into place afterwards.
Cheers
Roger
Very good tip, thanks!
Great idea.
I’ve long wondered the best way to file census data.
I’m trying to follow your instructions, but am realizing I, and perhaps others, first need a video on how you downloaded and linked the census to an event your g grandfather’s file in the first place.
I’ve downloaded, saved as jpg, and copied the 1930 census into my mother in law’s multimedia file. I marked it “treat as document” and entered the source citation. But it doesn’t open the yours did when I click on the source citation. Some link isn’t correctly made.
Can you point me to what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks
Hi, Louise.
I answered this question for you in the most recent article and screencast.
—Ben
Hi Ben,
I love your video tutorials, they are so clear and precise and professionally made.
A couple of issues that I have, is that you still have to separately include occupations from a census, and that can be a little messy. Secondly, I always use a flag to indicate that I have completed a census record for an individual. Do you know if there is any way that I could get the flag inserted automatically? Once again, having to do that as a separate exercise is open to error.
Bill
Great tip! Thanks.