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... any attempt to quantify the Age value in a Diagram Box is pointless beyond identifying it as a copy of the Age field, or an approximation estimated/calculated from other information that is summarised in the Diagram but can only be investigated in detail via the Property Box and Source Citation...

Thanks for the background on the Estimating Functions and the Generation parameter - could usefully be in the help system? We have moved away from my origin query from a question about templates to the philosophy of databases (and probably lost many readers!). I shall leave a mod to move this to a d...

This raises the issue of what the difference (if any) is between: Died age: 81 Died age: about 81 Died age: estimated 81 I don't think I have really considered these differences before but possibly: The first ("81") implies that we have some reasonably reliable documentary evidence (death certificat...

Pretty close but not there yet! Certainly not "mastered" templates. Age styles (Child, Infant, Younger than, etc): Younger than gives: Died: 16 Jul 1846 Colchester Essex Age: <81 - OK Child, Infant etc. gives: Died: 16 Jul 1846 Colchester Essex Age: Child - not ideal So I need to test the age to see...

OK, I think I have got pretty close: Line: Death Date, Place & Address [Start on New Line] Died: =TextIf(Exists(%INDI.DEAT%),Text(%INDI.DEAT.DATE:COMPACT%) . " " . %INDI.DEAT.PLAC:TIDY% . TextIf(Exists(%INDI.DEAT.ADDR%)," - ","") . %INDI.DEAT.ADDR%,) (as previous) Line: Death Age [NOT Start on New L...

Thanks again. So far: Line: Death Date, Place & Address [Start on New Line] Died: =TextIf(Exists(%INDI.DEAT%),Text(%INDI.DEAT.DATE:COMPACT%) . " " . %INDI.DEAT.PLAC:TIDY% . TextIf(Exists(%INDI.DEAT.ADDR%)," - ","") . %INDI.DEAT.ADDR%,) Line: Death Age [NOT Start on New Line] Age: =TextIf(Exists(%IND...

Mike, Thanks this will take some working through! Side Questions: Text( Text(%INDI.DEAT.DATE:COMPACT%) . " " . %INDI.DEAT.PLAC:TIDY% . " - " . %INDI.DEAT.ADDR% . "Age details" ) 1) Why does %INDI.DEAT.DATE:COMPACT% need to be wrapped in its own Text function but %INDI.DEAT.PLAC:TIDY% and %INDI.DEAT....

I am trying to make the "Died line" in diagrams more useful - currently they include date and place/address. I think I have to cope with the following situations: 1) No death or burial details: No "Died line" 2) Age at Death on certificate or in Burial Record and entered in age field for death or bu...

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I was a little worried from press reports that the link with My Heritage was going to be rather exclusive.

In v4 I use the Internet Search Functionality (Internet, Search the Internet) for accessing Ancestry etc.

With the link up with My Heritage have we lost this feature in V6?

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Yes, that looks much neater.

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David

Thanks again. I think I take Engagement out of the text scheme and further amend the Marriage template to read: =TextIf(IsEmpty(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT%),TextIf(IsEmpty(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>MARR%),ExistsText(%INDI.~SPOU[1+]>%,'Spouse'),'Married'),TextIf(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT% = 'Divorced','Married ',%INDI.FAM...

Thanks again. I can't see why that should not work, but it doesn't! http://www.fhug.rjt.org.uk/images/uploads/FH-extract3.JPG Note that Arthur's (youthful and unfulfilled) engagement to Belinda shows in both their boxes (so far so good), but Arthur's later engagement to Elly only shows in Elly's box...

Got out of sync on this one! Trying to build your suggestion from the posting of 13:56, I get =TextIf(IsEmpty(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT%),TextIf(IsEmpty(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>MARR%),ExistsText(%INDI.~SPOU[1+]>%,'Spouse'),'Married'),TextIf(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT% = 'Divorced','Married',%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT%)) ~ %I...

Thanks, definitely getting there! Slight modification gives: =TextIf(IsEmpty(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT%),ExistsText(%INDI.~SPOU[1+]>%,'Married'),TextIf(%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT% = 'Divorced','Married (Subs. Divorced)',%INDI.FAMS[1+]>_STAT%)):  %INDI.~SPOU[1+]>%, %INDI.FAMS[1+]>MARR.DATE%=TextIf(Not(NullDate(...

Also if I only know that they were married (but no date, place), it does not quite work:

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David

Thanks, that takes me a long way - however:
Divorced Jill James 2 June 1839 Age: 31
looks like the date of divorce and not of marriage (which I might not necessarily know), so
Married (Divorced) Jill James 2 June 1839 Age: 31
is actually better!

Can you test the status for a specific value?

David

I am trying to amend a template so as to list in all boxes (ancestor and descendent tress etc.) all marriages for everyone who 'has a box' and their age on marriage. So if a (M) relative married someone who had been married before, his box would show: Married: dd MMM yyyy Age: yy to Wife - place and...

Seem to have got this working again: 1) Re-install 2) Sort out a possible dodgy graphics driver update 3) Router problem - recently replaced and the NAS (network attached storage) has picked up a different network address which upset the routing to a networked printer. The driver was OK, but the rou...

Thanks, No, does this happen with a specific tree? - No have you run the validate option over the file? - GEDCOMs appear OK; problem even occurs on a mini test file (3 persons) Have you tried changing the default printer, as odd behaviour on diagrams is sometimes caused by bad printer drivers. - No,...

Anyone else finding that when you request a diagram from the record window, FH goes 'Not Responding'

V4.1.3 on Windows 7 Home Premium

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David

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I am trying to write a query to list people who I would expect to find in the 1911 Census. The easy bit is filtering out: those born after the census those who died / were buried before the census those who would be over [100] on census day those who are less than two generations from me (file root)...

If the birth was 1918 (and assuming we are talking UK), the father may have served in the services during WW1 so he would have a Medal Index Card (on-line at either National Archives or Ancestry).   You say the name is not unusual so you may struggle to positively identify him (so try Royal Engineer...

It would be useful if lines connecting parents to children were customisable in the same way that marriage lines are customisable.  This would enable adopted and foster children etc. to be noted by means of either colour coding or dotting at least the final vertical bit of the line above the child (...

Working around similar issues:- To get an adopted child to show in family trees of both birth and adoptive families, I need the child to have two parents - one of which I can give a relationship 'Adopted'.  I don't want to label the other relationship 'Birth' because that is the presumed default and...