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- 08 Jan 2023 17:23
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Re: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
Setting the definition to {blank} rather than deleting it altogether did the trick. The amount of time I spend explaining to people at work that blank and zero are not the same thing in Excel formulae, you would think I would have figured that out for myself straight away! :oops: Thanks for the head...
- 08 Jan 2023 15:46
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
- 08 Jan 2023 15:43
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Re: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
Thanks, Mike. I had already tried precisely what you suggested, which is why I'm a little flummoxed. The screenshot below shows as an example my global sentence settings for marriage. This did remove the witness sentences from the ancestors' narratives as you would expect, but for some reason they s...
- 08 Jan 2023 15:03
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
- Replies: 9
- Views: 817
Excluding witness sentences from child events in narrative reports
I am trying to to produce an abridged narrative ancestors report that contains only names and BMD dates and places. I do not want any other events/attributes included, nor any witness/informant role sentences. I do want the report to include child events/attributes (BMD dates and places plus spouse ...
- 13 Dec 2022 00:37
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Source template formatting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 489
Source template formatting
I have a footnote format {Author:REVERSE} ({Year}). {Type}, <{Date}>. <Subject: {Subject}.> in a source template for private correspondence. That generates output like, for example: Doe, John ( 2022 ). Email to John Roe, 13 December. Subject: the birth of Jane Doe. Note the superfluous spacing aroun...
- 12 Dec 2022 16:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Date either Quarters or precise dates
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1656
Re: Date either Quarters or precise dates
As a sort-of aside here, I personally find using quarter dates serves me well as flag to see at a quick glance whether or not the date is for a GRO registration of the event itself. Particularly important given that the registration may be recorded in the quarter after the event . Conversely, if I e...
- 12 Jul 2022 15:09
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: How To Modify Fact Set
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2473
Re: How To Modify Fact Set
The difference between Events and Attributes is that Attributes (like Occupation) have a value and Events don't. I sometimes struggle with this description of the difference between attributes and facts. I understand the general idea of a value/no-value distinction that divides them and thus how, f...
- 23 Jan 2022 17:41
- Forum: Research
- Topic: What occupation is this?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1869
What occupation is this?
Can anyone determine what this chap in Gloucester is a foreman of?
It's from the 1881 census for Barton St Michael in Gloucester (RG11/2536, fol. 111, p. 37, Sch. 205, William BROWN)
It's from the 1881 census for Barton St Michael in Gloucester (RG11/2536, fol. 111, p. 37, Sch. 205, William BROWN)
- 20 Jan 2022 20:02
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Mystery placename
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1541
Mystery placename
Can anyone decipher this Caernarfonshire placename from a 1911 census schedule? It looks to me something like "Ebewe..."? Perhaps a poor spelling of "Ebbw [something]"?
- 06 Jan 2022 20:52
- Forum: Research
- Topic: 1921 UK census - how to reference a schedule from its Findmypast image?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6655
Re: 1921 UK census - how to reference a schedule from its Findmypast image?
Out of interest, I had a quck look at Stathclyde Uni's thoughts on referencing censuses as I think CP built some of their source templates around SU's notes on references in general. They (Strathclyde) really seem to want to throw the kitchen sink at it, suggesting it should include a note of the pl...
- 06 Jan 2022 20:26
- Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
- Topic: Record Census Data (UK) updated for 1921
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2687
Re: Record Census Data (UK) updated for 1921
Annoyingly, on the first entry I paid £2.25 for a transcription and wondered why I couldn't see the census return itself - the £2.25 is just to see the transcription. I should have read the instructions correctly! I duly paid £3.15 to access the return itself. I then paid a further £3.15 for my oth...
- 06 Jan 2022 18:55
- Forum: Research
- Topic: 1921 UK census - how to reference a schedule from its Findmypast image?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6655
Re: 1921 UK census - how to reference a schedule from its Findmypast image?
I've been pondering the same issue myself. I read somewhere (sorry, I can't recall where, it was a while ago) that theoretically at least all that is needed to cite the right record in the 1921 census should be the piece number and household schedule number, e.g. RG15/13888 Sch. 288. However, like A...
- 24 Dec 2021 01:29
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1650
Re: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
I couldn't get =IsTrue( FindText( ToLower( FieldText( %INDI%,'INDI.FAMS[1]>_STAT' ) ),"married",1 ) > 0 ) ) to work, the program just reports an invalid expression. I therefore tried the following. It's less elegant, but it seemed to do the trick: =Bool(IsTrue(%INDI.FAMS>_STAT[ n ]% = &quo...
- 23 Dec 2021 21:49
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1650
Re: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
In short, for any n marriages indicated, you can't tell if there is an n+1 or n+... marriage missing. The spots are one of those things that, in an earlier form, originally served a different and now redundant purpose but persist because, thanks to the wonders of mission creep , they have evolved in...
- 23 Dec 2021 19:48
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1650
Re: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
Our second posts crossed in the mail...
- 23 Dec 2021 19:45
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1650
Re: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
With regard to the missing comma, I think that's just me being sloppy when I was editing my original post before submitting it. I had moved some text around a few times and must have lost the comma during the dicing and splicing without noticing. Sorry too about the confusion regard to the short tit...
- 23 Dec 2021 17:12
- Forum: Genealogy News
- Topic: Christmas Lights and Wishes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3069
Re: Christmas Lights and Wishes
Merry Christmas to all, and my thanks too to all who put their time into making this such a useful resource for all of us.
- 23 Dec 2021 17:08
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Conditional expressions for diagram icons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1650
Conditional expressions for diagram icons
I have red, green, and black spot icons that display underneath the boxes on my diagrams to show if I have a B, M, or D certificate/parish record for the individual concerned. It helps give me a good at-a-glance overview of where I need to do a little more research. These icons are triggered by vari...
- 22 Dec 2021 00:13
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: New format marriage certifcates in England and Wales from May 2021
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2019
Re: New format marriage certifcates in England and Wales from May 2021
I had occasion to look up some Scottish birth certificates recently. They are a veritable mine of information and better than their English & Welsh counterparts by a very long way.
- 20 Dec 2021 23:41
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: New format marriage certifcates in England and Wales from May 2021
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2019
New format marriage certifcates in England and Wales from May 2021
I was reading elsewhere with interest about the changes to marriage certificates that came in to effect from May this year in England and Wales: inclusion of both parents etc. I've been scouring the web trying to find an image/sample copy of one but to no avail. Has anyone else found anything they c...
- 14 Dec 2021 23:45
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Overall order of events in narrative reports
- Replies: 1
- Views: 823
Overall order of events in narrative reports
There doesn't seem to be a a way to specify the overall order of events in a narrative report - do I have that right? I can see how I can add and remove whichever individual events/attritibutes I wish and amend their order relative to one another, and likewise for the family events/attribues. Howeve...
- 10 Dec 2021 22:51
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Expressions syntax in queries
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1037
Re: Expressions syntax in queries
Thanks for the pointers, Mike, they got me on my way. I came up with the following, which seems to work on the records I'm looking at (This is for the 1841 column; the other columns are the same save for the census dates). You don't see any potential pitfalls in it that I may have overlooked, do you...
- 10 Dec 2021 15:39
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Expressions syntax in queries
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1037
Expressions syntax in queries
I haven't used queries very often thus far in FH, but they are useful and I want to get to grips with FH's expressions so I can better manipulate them. To that end, I have been playing around to see what I can achieve. I'm fully conversant with Excel, which is helpful in terms of giving me ideas abo...
- 27 Nov 2021 22:26
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Assessment of a relationship rather than a fact
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1856
Assessment of a relationship rather than a fact
If required I can assess the source cited for an event as questionable or unreliable, but is there a way to assess/flag a relationship in this way? I have the following situation: I have traced a certain line back to a marriage in 1762. I have not as yet found any evidence for the birthdate or birth...
- 25 Nov 2021 00:51
- Forum: General Usage
- Topic: Change one specific instance of a sentence in a narrative report
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2625
Re: Change one specific instance of a sentence in a narrative report
Thanks for all the responses. There's lots there to consider and experiment with. Lorna's first response picked up on precisely my issue, it's not that I want the father (and his ancestors, of which there are several generations' worth) hidden from my tree - on the contrary, I want as many direct an...