* Records Page Statistics

[Guest]

If you drag the ? help icon over the individuals or families fields (bottom right of the records screen) you get the following message. 'The topic does not exist. Contact your application vendor for an updated Help file (129)'.

I would like to know exactly what these numbers mean and how to validate them.[smile]

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[Jane]

Not sure what you mean by validating them. They are just the number of people in your file and the number of families.

Will pass to Calico the missing help reference.

[SimonOrde]

This message is actually put out by a Microsoft-supplied program that manages online help.  It is always put out if you ever ask for help with respect to any part of Family Historian for which there isn't any help.  There is supposed to be a way of making it say something sensible rather than this annoying and inappropriate message, but we have never managed to get it to work.  I believe that it is a bug in the Microsoft program.  In any event, please ignore this message. It just means 'No help is available'.

And, incidentally, I've no idea what the '(129)' means.  You'd have to ask Microsoft.

[Guest]

I mean the following by 'validating the numbers' produce a report which totals the numbers on the screen. I'd dont know of any report that lists all individuals and families and gives them a total number. I wont asume that the numbers are correct until they can be proved. Also I would like to know what is counted as a 'family'. The help file appears not to define a 'family' anywhere.

[Jane]

A family is a family record, ie any persons grouped as family as spouse or by family as child.

So a mother and child are a family as are two childen with unknown parents.

An individual is a person listed on the records page for person.

Why do you not trust family historian to know how many records there are in the file?