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Separate category for census people who are servants, lodgers, etc?

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May 9, 2020 edited October 21, 2021 in Suggest an Idea
Anita Grace Clayton said: When tagging census records, I would like to see an option to put people in a census entry into a category maybe like, servant, house/farm help or lodger so that they would not come up as "unattached". Another time when I mentioned these unattached people, someone suggested that we make a new entry for them so that they wouldn't lost. Should we be doing that? I don't feel comfortable with that. But it also bugs me to have them there. I know I can "dismiss" it. Would perhaps putting them in say a servant category make it easier to track some of these people who moved from family to family over the years?
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  • LegacyUser
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    May 7, 2020
    Paul said: The only problem with this (as pointed out in an earlier thread on this issue) is that some of these individuals DID have a relationship with the "Head" and/or another member of the family. I have seen people shown as servants or lodgers who were actually relatives, but the record(s) just did not specify their relationship with the head of the household.
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    May 7, 2020
    Todd Powell said: Anita,
    Thank you for this input. Want to let you know that we, as part of the product development team, have started working a couple of months ago on a solution related to this.
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    May 7, 2020
    Tom Huber said: Yes, I ran into this in at least one census record where a person that had enumerated was not associated as a relative with the head of the household. But I also knew that wasn't the case, so I was able to attach the person to the correct profile in the massive tree.

    I don't agree with the idea of a separate category because eventually, each of these "unattached" persons will need to be attached to their profile. I haven't started cleaning up my ancestral lines, but I hope to be able to determine if the person has a profile and if not, create one from the enumeration record.
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  • LegacyUser
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    May 8, 2020
    Anita Grace Clayton said: Good job
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    May 9, 2020
    Jeff Wiseman said: Anita,

    For what it's worth, until something else comes along you might try what I do. I turn the feature off so that none of that is showing.

    I will very occasionally turn it back on briefly when vetting data on a person, but once I've quickly checked them all, I just turn it back off again.
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    May 9, 2020
    Anita Grace Clayton said: Yes, I suppose I should do that, thank you.
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