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Data Entry question

Jennie

Jennie

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I'm just adding some more My Ancestors on LC and one red-starred box at the bottom of the page has puzzled me. It is "Household" + "Normally Set to Zero". Could someone, please, give me the correct interpretation of this? I cannot find it referred to in the FAQ. Thanks.
 
Jennie said:
I'm just adding some more My Ancestors on LC and one red-starred box at the bottom of the page has puzzled me. It is "Household" + "Normally Set to Zero". Could someone, please, give me the correct interpretation of this? I cannot find it referred to in the FAQ. Thanks.
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I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Can you take a screen shot ALT + PrtScn and post it here?
 
LC-Household-Query.jpg Back briefly! England and Wales 1881 - Second box up from the bottom, above "Notes". Although I have often entered info into 'Maiden surname' and have never entered anything where the '0' is, I do not get an error message.
 
Jennie said:
View attachment 272 Back briefly! England and Wales 1881 - Second box up from the bottom, above "Notes". Although I have often entered info into 'Maiden surname' and have never entered anything where the '0' is, I do not get an error message.
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Apologies - there shouldn't be a red asterisk against Household because it is optional.
 
Jennie, that box only comes up on the Edit screen, not the Add screen.
And I've never changed it, so all mine are at 0.
 
Alexander was asking what the functionality of the household box was for and what it did.
 
peter said:
See this FAQ
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I used the 'household no.' feature yesterday, as I did have two families show up as one, since they were on the same census page. Just changed the one family to the house number from the census, and left the other at 0, and worked great -- just have to remember to change everyone from that household (as I learned).
 
I have had to use this feature 3 times on my ancestors!
One census page has 3 of my families on the same page.
I just put 1 and 2 as the household number for the other families.
Doreen said:
Just changed the one family to the house number from the census, and left the other at 0, and worked great .
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That sounds like a very good idea Doreen, I may go and change my entries.
Thanks for the idea
 
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