Family Historian User Group

Hi again, its Mrs. Thick!!

I would like to create a flag which shows all the records that have a birth certificate as a source - but even using a similar sort of query as I've done for the census stuff I cannot seem to make it work - please could someone point me in the right direction.

Loulou330

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Why not post what you have so far, also do you have 1 source for all birth certificates or lots, and do they have a type which is birth Certificate for example

Hi Jane - yes, I have one source for all all birth certificates.

My query so far:

Rows: exclude if %INDI.BIRTH.SOURC>% is null

I'm not very good with this sort of thing - looking at the queries that have been written which show missing certificates there needs to be something in the column tab - but what?

I want to then put flags on to my diagram

Loulou33

That will only tell you if you have some sort of source on the birth not if it's a birth certificate, so items with census sources would also be marked.

Personally if you have only 1 source I would tend to select births linked to that source.

Add if
%INDI.BIRT[1].SOUR[1]>% is .. and then select your Birth Certificate Source


Then you can use the Query menu to select Set Flag on Result set records

Hi - thanks for your help, and this is really showing how thick I am but how do I select the source?

I've put in what I thought it could be ie 'matches' then the name of source in the box but this gives me zilch!

[oops][cry]
Loulou330

Click the ... button on the end to select the source.

Many thanks - I'm very confused.

Loulou330

Also, in case your Birth Events have more than one Source Citation, and the Birth Certificate Source is not the first, you should add extra rows:
Add if %INDI.BIRT[1].SOUR[2]>% is ..
Add if %INDI.BIRT[1].SOUR[3]>% is ..
until happy you have captured enough instances.