Potential Problems

paulandberyl · Post by **paulandberyl** » 28 Nov 2010 11:34

Hi.
I am just starting to use FH4 and have noticed that it doesn't seem to have a potential problems indicator (i.e.marriage before a certain age or too old at death, etc) like most Genealogy software. Please can anyone tell me if there is such a thing or how they look for problems. Thanks

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AnneEast · Post by **AnneEast** » 28 Nov 2010 15:26

In my experience .... if you try to enter a date which is 'impossible' you get a warning flash up on the screen asking if you really mean that.

Anne

paulandberyl · Post by **paulandberyl** » 28 Nov 2010 15:40

Thanks for that Ann. I have a record that shows the male being born in 1961 and his wife born 1956. I have tried what you suggested and put in the marriage year again which I have as 1975. It accepts the year. On Rootsmagic it was thrown up as a potential problem as he would only have been 14 at marriage.

Post by **tatewise** » 28 Nov 2010 16:10

Here are some suggestions.

When you enter a Fact the Age is shown on the Facts tab in parentheses ( ). In the case of your 1975 Marriage it will show as (14).
When you know the person's age, in this case from the Marriage Certificate, then enter it in the Age box, and the parentheses are removed from the Age in the Fact.
If the age disagrees with the date of birth, then it is followed by an exclamation mark in parentheses (!).
So if your male was aged 16 on the Marriage Certificate it would appear as 16 (!). This is the indicator that something needs investigating.
P.S.
Click on the Age box and then the ... button to the right, and you are offered various options. So if on an old Marriage Certificate it simply says of 'full age' you can enter 'Older than age given'.

The FH Queries provide many ways to analyse your Facts.
The FHUG has many Queries supplied by members that you can download and install for free.
One such Query is Married Too Young that lists all individuals married before the age of 16.
See http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... _too_young for details.

paulandberyl · Post by **paulandberyl** » 28 Nov 2010 16:25

Hi. Thanks. I tried that and for any age under the age of 14 it works but not for the age of 14 or above.

ireneblackburn · Post by **ireneblackburn** » 28 Nov 2010 16:32

Go to TOOLS then Preferences, click on Estimates tabs and you can set your own preferred minimum/maximum ages, then if you enter something outside these bands it will flash up a warning

Irene

paulandberyl · Post by **paulandberyl** » 28 Nov 2010 16:49

Hi. Thank you. I have tried that and set the minimum age to 17. Then I tried putting in the age of 12 and get the exclamation mark. When I enter 13 or above ages it seems to accept it.

PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 28 Nov 2010 16:50

The Married_Too_Young Query checks only the Age explicitly entered for the Marriage Event, not the age implied by the difference between Marriage Date and Birth Date. This might explain why it appears not to work properly.

I'm not sure but it seems to me that the Minimum specified for the Man's age at marriage on the Preferences ... Estimates tab is not checked against either the Age explicitly entered for the Marriage Event, nor the age implied by the difference between Marriage Date and Birth Date.

PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 28 Nov 2010 17:40

I've just added a new Query Married Too Young V2 which checks both the age explicitly entered for the marriage event and the age implied by the difference between marriage date and birth date.
http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... ies&id=113

paulandberyl · Post by **paulandberyl** » 29 Nov 2010 00:28

Thank you PeterR -- Works a treat.[smile]

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