Easy way to add bul census entries

[anton mcloughlin]

If like me you collect all census images for everyone then inputting them is a pain….but…there is a neat free util called Gedcom Census which reads your gedcom file and has all the UK, USA & Can census years and dates built in. Then the list of pple comes up in a pane and on the other side is the input….choose a place, area, year and then pick a person from list and it shows their whole family and hust click on the person add age and occupation and when sheet finished save without the image.  It then does a pukka Sour entry into your gedcom file…then reload it back to pgv.  Makes real short work of it and I have used it for years now.  Get it free from:
http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=downloads&cat=GedCom

[Brian Holland]

Hi Anton,

I have been working on a new PGV Module for the last several months. (it is called GedFact\_assistant/\_CENS/ )<br />
The GUI is based on the Gedcom Census layout. <br />
Essentially when you add a new Census event, it creates a Shared Note which is auto fomatted to show the Census Trancription neatly laid out in columns, with as much information it can find in the PGV database about a person (Age, Birthplace etc etc). <br />
It dynamically changes the layout for the Census Country/Year that is selected (Just UK and USA at the moment). <br />
The Shared Note is then stored, and the Census event is then auto copied to all Indis in the Census Transcription List.

I hope to have this available in the next 2 months or so.

Brian

[Stephen Arnold]

If you think this is nifty, wait until you see Brian's GedFact Assistant, which includes a CENS 'module' for UK and USA census transcription. It can and will be extended to other countries which have a standardized CENS format.

The result from the software includes a sweet new formatting trick for creating table-like presentations of the data using the Shared Note tag.  You may see an example at our :  It uses a form of Brian's family navigator function to make family member selection easy and it auto-copies the data to each person listed (if you wish). Additionally fact/event recording templates are being imagined for ease of data entry and better data presentation, but the first phase is CENS-oriented. 
-Stephen

  : http://www.myarnolds.com/family.php?famid=F28154&ged=Arnold.ged

[macalter]

Boo hoo. Anton. The files are Windows only :( Macs don't do .exe files.

[Anonymous]

Just be patient. Brian's Census entry tool should be in the next release - and it is VERY similar to the Gedcom CENSUS tool that Anton describes.