Mike: However, using the Place name Missing is a novel technique to indicate missing Census details.
I am guessing that you want to only identify as missing, those Census entries when the person is alive.
Good guess, but wrong. I have a number of individuals who
ought to have census entries for a given year but, try as I might, I can't locate them.
The set of
18** Missing flags is to remind me of instances of this situation; they provide a lightweight method of deliberately marking certain years for certain individuals. Hence my 'novel technique': setting the Census
PLACE as "Missing" (a) is simple and deliberate, and (b) would enable me to locate the records for future re-review via a
Where Used report on the "Missing" place, in the same way that the
Has Flag query does now.
I'm glad I've made the experiment of replacing flags by expressions, but to be honest it doesn't seem to offer any advances in my particular case.
Roger Firth, using FH to research the FIRTHs of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the residents of the market town where I live.