how to place farm worker when importing census

ssuming you want to connect them to the family in whose household they are found (specifically the Head of household), go to the Other Relationships section on the Details / Profile page. Click on "Add Other Relationship", which produces this:

From the drop-down menu choose "Employment", then add the Employee, either by ID reference (if they already have one) or by creating a new profile for them. (Click on Add Person" and proceed.)

To be honest, I have never tried this myself! Just a personal preference, but I would probably only use this feature to add cousins or other persons in the household who were somehow directly related to the "Head". However, this feature (of connecting employees, neighbours and others) appears to have been introduced by "popular demand", so I believe users should utilise it if they feel it suits their way of linking individuals on the tree in a broader way than was previously offered here.

@PamNana - there is a third option. Do NOT do anything with them. Just ignore the entry altogether.

You should only ignore them if you don't recognise them as a member of the family at the farm. I'm assuming that you don't recognise them, in which case you are free to ignore them and not attach their entry to anything. If you do ignore them you will get a message against the attached Source Record saying "This source has not been attached to all people found in the record" Don't dismiss it, just ignore that message, leaving it there. It's fine to do that.

So why do I advocate ignoring the entry? Why not attempt to create a new profile as @Wayland K Adams suggests? Because if I do that, I probably have to start thinking about whether any possible match identified by the FamilySearch site is the farm worker or not - that's bad for me. I have my thinking hat on about the family on the farm. The last thing I want to do is suddenly start thinking about someone else before I've finished with the family living on the farm. It's a complete disruption of my thought processes and can therefore result in errors. And if FS does identify a possibility, how on earth do I know it's the worker in question? The suggested possibility might have died as an infant - a researcher into that family might know this - I certainly don't.

I could just create a completely new profile for the worker but this is going to be a pain in the posterior for anyone researching that worker's family because they will then have to merge my newly created profile into an existing profile, and doing a merge is always more complex than just attaching a source.

Please don't ever feel that just because you can do something, then you should do it. Someone else might know a lot more about your unrelated farm worker than you and you're not stopping them from doing anything if you ignore that record.

I like this idea in the case where you see the worker (or non-family member) staying with the family over 2 or more census'. While not blood related, there is a relationship over time; finding on one census only, you don't know if they were working for the week, summer, or other short time.

This question was also raised at

Perhaps a moderator might wish to merge the two items.

If there's a census for a family plus one or two non-family members, I find it easiest just to initially create the profile by adding them as children or siblings, then just manually detaching them. It's much faster to do that than to create the profiles manually using "Add Unconnected Person".

I hadn't thought about setting Other Relationships afterwards, but I might. I just noticed that "household" is one of the relationship options, but it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere. It's criminal that they didn't move Guardianship to Other Relationships.