From: J. A. C. <sof...@cr...> - 2013-01-26 22:09:34
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I had looked at the documentation, but I'm still not sure what is a good way to handle census data from before 1850. Beginning in 1850, U.S. census records had a line for each person. However, for 1840 and earlier, there was only one line per household listing the number of people in various age groups. If I enter it into census gramplet that way, it creates an event for one person. Is anyone else sharing the event for other members of the household? I don't mind working on adding information for state census records to the census.xml file as it is convenient, but I didn't want to do it if others had already done so. Where would I submit new census forms when I get them done? Allen On 01/26/2013 06:33 AM, Doug Blank wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:36 AM, J. Allen Crider > <sof...@cr... > <mailto:sof...@cr...>> wrote: > > I have just recently started using the census gramplet addon and I have > a couple of questions about it. > > 1. What is the best way to use the gramplet for U.S. federal census > data for years before 1850? I would like to have the census event > shared between the family members represented, but I'm not sure what the > best way to do that is for those early years. > > 2. Has anyone worked on adding state census data to the gramplet or is > there documentation on how to add a new census? I have data from Iowa > and Missouri, as well as a few other states, and it would be nice to use > the gramplet for those as well. > > > Have you seen the documentation: > > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Census > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Census_Addons > > and the links to particular example countries? > > Although, none of those links say how to create new census forms. But it > is fairly easy, and it would be great if you donate those back to Gramps > if you create them. You just need to edit the census XML file named > "census.xml". This will be found in different places on different > operating systems. On Windows, it might be in a place like: > > C:\Users\yourid\AppData\Roaming\gramps\gramps34\plugins\Census\census.xml > > You can copy a section in that file, change the parts to match the new > census details (id, title, etc) add the new columns, and then restart > Gramps. (We should document this process on the wiki, hint, hint.) > > Hope that helps, > > -Doug > > Thanks, > Allen Crider > |