Every Census says its the 1841

Nickm · Post by **Nickm** » 02 Sep 2007 20:46

I have recently started using GC but find that every entry when viewed in Family Historian Events and Source panes, says its the 1841. See attached screen shot. How can I fix this?

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 02 Sep 2007 21:06

I suspect this is not a gedcom census problem, it looks as if you have customised your census fact set sentence and included 1841 hard coded as the year in it rather than the date.

eg your template says

{individual} appeared in the census of 1841 {place}

rather than

{individual} appeared in the census {date} {place}

Obviously this will result in all the sentences showing 1841 as the year

Nickm · Post by **Nickm** » 02 Sep 2007 21:37

Hi Jane, I havent knowingly changed this. I created Custom Events for each census before using GC. If I create a new census Event for someone using these it gets the sentence '{individual} appears in the {label} {place}'. Which works fine. See attached screen shot.

Should I have set up a Sentence for use when using the GC? If so where?

Post by **NickWalker** » 02 Sep 2007 22:55

Gedcom Census doesn't support this kind of use of custom events for census records. It just uses the standard census event.

Now what you seem to have done is renamed the standard census event to be 'Census of 1841'. The clue is that the third 'Fact Set' column in your last screenshot says 'Standard'. All the other census records say Custom. Gedcom Census uses the standard census event which is why it is connecting all your census records to this one.

What's wrong with using the standard census event? What advantage do you think you will gain from these custom events?

Nick

Nickm · Post by **Nickm** » 03 Sep 2007 00:20

I changed this when I first got FH before I found GC as it made it more obvious which census it was referring to. I have changed the text back and it appears to be OK. I'll have a closer look tomorrow, but hopefully its sorted.

Do the FH Census Flags work on the Census tag and the Date?

Many thanks
Nick

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 03 Sep 2007 08:33

Do the FH Census Flags work on the Census tag and the Date?

Yes - but obviously they will not pick up your custom events.

Post by **NickWalker** » 03 Sep 2007 11:58

Yes you can associate flags with census dates and countries. Gedcom Census will then automatically create the relevant flag when you create a census record.

If you're going to be using GC for your census recording then I would suggest deleting the other custom census events, if you haven't already, as you won't need them.

Hope this helps

Nick

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