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• Includes a 1921 Scotland census template, adapted from a template kindly supplied by Colin McDonald.
• The 1950 USA census now displays names in Surname Given Names order. Thanks to Margaret Lawrence for pointing out that this needed to be changed.
• Fixed an issue where text could disappear from a source note when changing to a rich-text autotext or plain-text autotext template depending on the rich-text option set. Thanks to Lorna Craig for reporting this.
• Fixed a problem that could lead to auto-text wrongly reporting the user had already edited the source text. Thanks to Colin Spencer for letting me know about this.
• Made a small improvement to the source conversion system to deal with double spaces at the start or end of text, based on an issue reported by Chris Read.

LornaCraig wrote: ↑

08 Dec 2022 20:16

I think you are referring to the example on the NRS (National Records of Scotland) site, because FindmyPast doesn't have the Scottish 1921 census. The NRS site does indeed have an example featuring several of the 'wrong' kind of entries in that column. In fact it's odd that they chose that particular page as an example, because it seems to have contained a number of irregularities. There are a lot of 'red ink' corrections to it!

Interestingly the NRS site also gives an example of the schedules which were completed by the householders themselves, and it looks the same as the English ones! Unfortunately we can no longer see those schedules, because as the NRS site explains "The 1921 Scottish census records are the enumeration books which contain information transcribed from the household schedules, ... The schedules were destroyed after the work on the census was completed."

If the Scottish householder schedules really were the same as the English ones (I'm not convinced) it's not surprising that some enumerators got confused, because what they had to do was not an exact transcription. Their enumerator books contained that extra column for status which wasn't on the householders' schedules, so they had to create the entries in the status column themselves and in some cases forgot to remove the same information from the employment column. But did the enumerators also have to create the data for the 'Health insurance' column and the columns for number of rooms?

David2416 wrote: ↑

09 Dec 2022 08:36

Hi Nick,

Have just installed AS 7.6.5 - and have a question about the warning message re custom templates:
I have created many custom templates with a personalised name to distinguish from existing.
Would these be overwritten or deleted if I accepted Yes rather than No?

neil40 wrote: ↑

08 Dec 2022 22:50

First use of this version, entering a Baptism record I got this error box when saving to FH, and the continue button fails to commit the baptism to FH.

NickWalker wrote: ↑

09 Dec 2022 17:17

David2416 wrote: ↑

09 Dec 2022 08:36

Hi Nick,

Have just installed AS 7.6.5 - and have a question about the warning message re custom templates:
I have created many custom templates with a personalised name to distinguish from existing.
Would these be overwritten or deleted if I accepted Yes rather than No?

Hi David

I suspect the warning you're seeing is regarding census templates

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If you have created census templates with a type/country/year that is different to those that are built into AS then they won't be overwritten if you click Yes.

There aren't any new auto-text templates in 7.6.5 but they are handled a little differently anyway and never overwrite any custom templates.

NickWalker wrote: ↑

09 Dec 2022 18:14

Thanks Neil - I've now released v7.6.6 that should fix this. I'd forgotten I did a lot of tidying up of some lazy coding, but this seems to have had unintended knock-on effects so I've put the lazy coding back!

Please report in this thread any issues you spot or email me (nick at ancestralsources dot com).