

I refer to those with an Other designation as Tenants. In any given census year, a person will be listed as ‘Head’ ‘Spouse’ ‘Son’ ‘Daughter’ or some Other designation. The reason for beginning with people who are listed as ‘Head’ is to avoid duplication.

Someone, however, is always listed first, and we will refer to that person as the ‘Head’ of the household. In some cases, such as an orphanage, this person is listed as ‘Officer’ ‘Matron’ or some other designation instead. (HoH) Each record of a residence in the census begins with a person almost always listed as ‘Head’ of the house. I will begin this project by selecting the people on my family file who are shown on a census as the ‘Head’ of house. That tag will be visible in the ‘Family’ view, the ‘Pedigree’ view and the ‘Descendants’ view. Because of this, I want a way to identify people after I have searched for them on each census which occurred any time while they were Head of household. Since I have done a less than stellar job of documenting my family file, I foresee this as a long project. I believe that I learn faster by doing than by just observing, so this is a hands on lesson. The B4 part lets me quickly pick this backup from a list of backup files. Is what I would call it before a big change. Tools -> Preferences -> Database, a backup of this file would be namedĭeleteThisExampleFile, 08-56 B4 Big Change.aqz Normally, because of the settings I chose in Just a hint though! For this type of backup I alter the backup title. With a backup if I do something wrong, and I don’t know how to correct it or if I don’t want to spend the time and effort it would take to correct it, I can always restore the backup and start again. Backups are inexpensive when compared to the alternative. Whenever I try something new or big or complicated, I like to make a backup of my file before I begin. Meanwhile, this is one of the ways I thought of, and I like it. If I find something good, I’ll post it on AQWillDo. After a lot of thinking, I came up with far fewer than 10 ways. When I asked Gaylon some questions about this video, he said, “There are probably a thousand good ways to document this, and very few bad ways.” I have a lot of respect for Gaylon and for AQ.

(Click This Link) It’s only 8 minutes long. In RootsTech 2021 Gaylon Findlay teaches a method for sharing events and their sources.
