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by davidf
21 Dec 2022 22:16
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Consistency of data
Replies: 14
Views: 1160

Re: Consistency of data

If you have a date of 3 March for a baptism/marriage but a date of birth/death of Q1, does that throw these sorts of errors?
by davidf
19 Dec 2022 13:10
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Date either Quarters or precise dates
Replies: 17
Views: 1650

Re: Date either Quarters or precise dates

Are we mixing two things: The parsing of a remarkable range of possible input formats into the FH storage format. How dates are formatted on display Is there any way I can set all ranges to accept Jan-March 1974 say instead of Q1 1974 Not either frm Jan 1974-March 1974 but just as above the same as ...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 21:49
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List entry 599] Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources
Replies: 41
Views: 4910

Re: Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources

Adrian How would that report look if the citations did not match the source but were in the nature of a time offset from the start of a recorded interview? The report seems to say that all 14 facts are supported by the Source in its entirety - with no "Where within Source" data - which is ...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 19:59
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

The usual case is where a name changes on a particular date similar to the maiden to the married name change. Setting the rule to accommodate inexpert use, leads to confusing Help documentation and user understanding. IMO set the simple rule for the usual case and let inexpert use take its course. ...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 19:46
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Maybe I was thinking more along the lines of special indexes akin to [first] and [last]. i.e. INDI.NAME[primary] and INDI.NAME[time_line] Well INDI.NAME[primary] would always be INDI.NAME[1], and INDI.NAME by itself in a multi-name record would default to returning INDI.NAME[1]? I'm not sure how ea...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 16:07
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Why not choose the one with the earliest start date, then the exception is not an exception? (Maybe there was an earlier explanation that I missed. ) I think I felt that if Names had been entered "inexpertly", it was probably the one with the most recent start date when compared with the ...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 16:04
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

I wonder if there is any mileage in Name Qualifiers? e.g. INDI.NAME:PRIMARY displays the Primary Name INDI.NAME[1] regardless of any potential Time Line or Context names. INDI.NAME : TIME_LINE displays the associated Time Line name if one exists otherwise the Primary Name. INDI.NAME : CONTEXT (my a...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 13:08
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Timeline Names In addition to "Context Names" - associating a particular name variation with a specific fact (e.g. a stage name with appearance in a play), others have expressed a need to be able to report facts using the name by which the person was known at the time. For instance, after...
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 11:26
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrade version 7.0.18
Replies: 3
Views: 721

Re: Upgrade version 7.0.18

Welcome to the User Group

I think you will find that this is an FMP issue

500 Errors usually indicate that their server is having some sort of problem

See: Internal FindMyPast Links Broken (21093)
by davidf
17 Dec 2022 11:22
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List entry 599] Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources
Replies: 41
Views: 4910

Re: Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources

I have developed a work flow where I decide at what “level of lumping” I want for a given record set and create the Bibliography template accordingly. The level at which you chose to "lump" is very much up to you - for me it really comes down to how I want to describe "what I looked ...
by davidf
16 Dec 2022 23:24
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List entry 599] Allow citation fields in bibliography on sources
Replies: 41
Views: 4910

Re: Allow citation fields in biography on sources

Elsewhere I have seen reference to an "Index of Citations"

In such a (lumper) index, the top level is each (lumped) source and under that is each citation of that source with the page numbers of the pages on which the citation appeared.

I've not seen one in genealogy.
by davidf
16 Dec 2022 20:52
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Mike (much) earlier said: It would be feasible to identify a particular NAME instance by a structure such as NAME[type="IMMIGRANT"]. This is an attractive idea, but if the NAME.TYPE is not unique, we could for instance have numerous names of TYPE="Pen name". If we want to be able...
by davidf
16 Dec 2022 18:53
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Taking your helpful reply piece by piece (I will try and then pull it all together - I think we may actually have two closely related Wish List Items - so closely related I think I want to keep them together as two requirements in one Wish List Request): Items in Blue are areas where I am aware that...
by davidf
16 Dec 2022 14:40
Forum: General Usage
Topic: half relations
Replies: 4
Views: 2677

Re: half relations

Some when considering relationships (particularly half-relationships) forget that the key individual is the most recent common ancestor. If the most recent common ancestor happens to be two people (xGt Grandparents) the relationship is a "full one". If the most recent common ancestor happe...
by davidf
16 Dec 2022 13:24
Forum: Research
Topic: 1921 England Census
Replies: 16
Views: 2944

Re: 1921 England Census

In other censuses I have sometimes found it useful to look to see if they were staying with a relative who might be found under a name which may be less likely to be miss-transcribed. For instance: they were staying with the wife's parents they were staying with a brother-in-law (i.e. a married sist...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 23:56
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

So where are we with the Supplementary Names? You seemed to be suggesting restrictions on the fact types??? Well I was just wondering how in practice they would be used. Time-Line Names would take over from Primary Name if the option is selected, so when would Supplementary Names be used? Use of Su...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 22:10
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

Am I coming back to declaring "Cary Grant" as the primary name from 1931 onwards, regardless of its legal status? The way I have it currently specified I think you would define "Cary Grant" as a time-line name from 1931 (because you want it used from a point on the time-line). N...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 18:39
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects
Replies: 16
Views: 2362

Re: Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects

I've added the word optional in the notes. When I am trying to formulate a wish list item, I try to put the "what I want" at fairly high level (I don't want to do CP's job for them) in the "Requirements" section. The "Benefits" section is the "why I want" The ...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 17:52
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects
Replies: 16
Views: 2362

Re: Allow use of 'File Description' when creating and opening projects

Not seeing anything in David's final "requirements" post indicating if this File Description value will be mandatory or optional?. I'm anticipating "optional", but would suggest that documentation describing the use of the File Description field (or whatever CP decide to use) sh...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 17:48
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Unmarried mothers & loop indices
Replies: 16
Views: 1402

Re: Unmarried mothers & loop indices

Glenn Webby wrote: 15 Dec 2022 17:29 We have replicated the problem using your examples - thank you
I've not seen that reported before; can we take that as an encouraging "higher level of acknowledgement"?
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 17:46
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: Saving Marker Sets
Replies: 8
Views: 2060

Re: Saving Marker Sets

Project Level Marker sets - specific to people in the Project
Application Level Marker sets - general markers (e.g. locations of Country Record Offices, churches, cemeteries etc.) that research notes in any project may refer to?
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 17:35
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

If we use a prefix in the NAME.TYPE to determine the usage of names, it might be helpful to think through how it works in practice. Setting the Option There has to be an option somewhere as to whether reports (and other forms of output - which? ) are to refer to the "Primary Name" (NAME[1]...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 16:34
Forum: Wish List Requests On Hold
Topic: On Hold until 13 Dec 2024: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names
Replies: 25
Views: 4482

Re: Dating and Usage of Names and Alternate Names

1. The distinction between Time-Line-Names and Supplementary names sounds good. Yes, but we then do have to distinguish between them! 2. Not keen on saying that any dated %INDI.NAME[n]% is treated as a "time-line name" because I might want to provide a date for the name "John le Carr...
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 14:55
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Building tree
Replies: 7
Views: 784

Re: Building tree

Sometimes working from a Newspaper report to see "the Bride's cousins Susan and Mary were the bridesmaids" - even if referred to as Miss X or Miss Y, you are sometimes no better off and you may well not know who their parents were?
by davidf
15 Dec 2022 14:08
Forum: Closed Wish List Requests
Topic: [Wish List Request 595] Default Surname when adding children & parents
Replies: 7
Views: 2152

Re: Default Surname when adding children & parents

Updated to reflect that V7 introduced "default surname when adding a father" Default Surname when adding children & parents Requirement The overall requirement is to be able to offer a wider range of "default surname" on "Add Child" and on "Add a parent". ...