* Too many Occupation facts

[LornaCraig]

The occupation facts cannot be hidden in the Facts tab of the Property box, if that is what you are referring to. All recorded facts for the individual are listed in that tab. The optional ones are basic facts which belong to close family members. Those can be hidden/displayed by clicking the calendar icon in the Facts tab toolbar (just left of the cog wheel icon) or selectively limited by using the cog wheel icon > Timeline facts > Select Timeline Facts dialog.

If you have a lot of identical occupations recorded for a single individual, with different dates, and you are sure they held the same occupation continuously for a long period of time, you can reduce them to a single occupation fact with a date period, citing all the sources against the single fact. You might want to add a note explaining that the same occupation was recorded at several different dates. This will save a lot of space and repetition in the Facts tab.

[Gowermick]

Paula,
If as I suspect, they are for different censuses, simply change the date for one of them to a date range, then delete the others entries

e.g you have three facts for the same occupation in 1841,1851 & 1861 censuses, change the date for the 1841 fact to read 1841-1861, then delete the occupation facts for 1851 & 1861.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Re Mike L's suggestion, you do of course have to be sure that thete were no other occipations between censuses. I have an individual who was a painter and decorator in most censuses but showed up as a photographer inbetween. Ditto a carpenter who ran an undertaking business.

The same applies to residences. I know of an individual who wa at home in a small Dorset village in every census during hid lifetime. And regularly in jail inbeteeen them! He was actually sentenced to transportation twice, but never left the country...

[tatewise]

Paula, perhaps you are talking about the Publish > Miscellaneous > Individual Timeline report?
That report uses the Sentence Template for each fact. So if you set the Occupation fact Sentence Template to {blank} then all Occupation facts are excluded. However, they are then also excluded from all Narrative Reports.
If you are interested in this solution then we can give more details and a workaround for Narrative Reports.

[fhtess65]

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If you have a lot of identical occupations recorded for a single individual, with different dates, and you are sure they held the same occupation continuously for a long period of time, you can reduce them to a single occupation fact with a date period, citing all the sources against the single fact. You might want to add a note explaining that the same occupation was recorded at several different dates. This will save a lot of space and repetition in the Facts tab.

I did this for Residence facts when I found my 5th great-grandmother multiple times in Overseers Accounts :

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