Family Historian User Group

I have been using Family historian since V3 but never managed to master queries.  Thanks to your brilliant tutorial I have now managed to create queries for all the censuses, and insert the relevant flags into diagrams.

I have always entered census info as an event; I enter the parents as a family event, and then enter the information for each child separately. All the entries are there when I look under the FACT tab, but are not all showing in the query result.  It appears that couples entered under the 'Census (family)' facility are not recognised.

Am I doing something wrong?

Jean

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Have you tried Nick Walker's excellent program Ancestral Sources for entering Census details. It's free and avaliable from the FHUG Home Page, (Right-hand side of page).

It removes all the hard work and is a doddle to use.

Yes, I downloaded it last week and shall use it in future.  It looks brilliant.  But that doesn't solve the issue with the entries I have done previously.

I suspect your query only includes individual census events; you need to add the equivalent family ones as well.

I knew there would be some clever person out there!  I have indeed created a query for an individual.  I presume I will have to create two separate queries, then add them both to the same list - ie. it is not possible to catch both groups with one query?

It should be possible catch both groups with a single query. How have you constructed you current query -- by adding individuals with a fact for the relevant census year? If so, you just need to add the individuals with a family fact for that census year as well.

Thanks for your help. I am wading in unfamiliar waters. My query was INDI.CENS[year=1841]. I can see how to construct FAM.CENS[year=1841]. The couples come up OK but I now see that you can only attach a flag to an individual. Am I going to have to sort this out the long way?

I haven't been able to test this as I don't have any family census records, but the following should work as an Individual query.
If you have individuals who married more than once, you can add further lines like
and so on up to the maximum number of marriages you expect an individual to have had.

Thanks very much for your help.  Although I recognise that your suggestion would work in an Excel document, FH asks you to choose between Individual and Family, and won't recognise it.  

Never mind.  I solved the problem in the end by doing a separate Family Query, adding the results to the Named List of Individuals ... and then going through the Family records putting each member on as an Individual.  I got the whole lot done in an hour, so reckoned it was quicker than trying to solve it by trying to be clever!

From here on I shall make sure I use Ancestral Sources, so the issue won't arise again.

That's odd -- it works fine for me; and I created an 1841 family census event as well to check.

Still, you've solved your problem, which is th eimportant thing.