* Place, Address and Death Fields In Reports and Diagrams

[Shiriki]

Hi

If one has entered information in the 'Place', 'Address, and 'Cause' fields of the Death fact of an individual I have noticed the following with regard to the standard Reports and Diagrams when publishing.
For an Individual Summary Report the listing appears as follows with respect to Death details:
Death followed by 'Date then 'Place' information.
Next line (smaller text by default) 'Cause'.
The next line (smaller text again by default) ' Address'.

Seems strange that the Cause of Death is sandwiched between Place and Address.

On a cursory inspection this 'sandwiching' appears on Descendants Diagrams, Ancestor Diagrams and Family Group Sheets.
However listing appears in 'Place', 'Address' and 'Cause' order on Descendant and Ancestor Outline Reports.
As a result of this (and appearances sake) I tend to put all information about a place and address in the Address Field only (William Clegg author of 'Where to Record It In Family Historian V5 also seems to follow this practice).

I'm running Version 5.0.9 0n Windows 7.0 64-bit

Many thanks in advance for any advice or comments

Shiriki

[tatewise]

Welcome to the FHUG.

Your observations are very accurate. It is a slightly strange order, but bear in mind it only affects Death Events.

Regarding Diagrams, what you describe only applies to the two All Events and Attributes Text Schemes, which I find usually includes far too much detail.

All the other Text Schemes allow the order of Place, Address and Cause to be customised.

I would advise not to change your use of Place and Address solely for the Death Event layout.

Also take what William Clegg author of Where to Record It In Family Historian V5 says with a large pinch of salt.
Many of his suggestions go against the commonly accepted way of entering FH data.
We have no idea who he is, he does not belong to this FHUG nor the FHU Mailing List, and does not contribute to either.
Please see the glossary:places|> Places and Addresses advice.

[Shiriki]

Mike, thanks for the prompt reply.

I will re examine how I enter information into the Place and Address fields, to try and follow convention.
I appreciate that it only is an issue in the Death event , but would you know if it intended to address (no pun intended) the order in which data is displayed in the reports I mentioned previously so that the Cause is no longer sandwiched between the Place and Address fields in a later update to Family Historian?


Shiriki

[tatewise]

Sorry, but future updates to FH are guarded secretly by Calico Pie.

[Jane]

In narrative reports you have full control over the sequence of the information, on Summary reports you don't, but it would be one which could be included on the wish list.