castlehillwizard

In the one line summaries of "Father" & "Mother" in Person Details View and "Sibling" & "Spouse" in the Siblings pane and "Children" & "Spouse" in the Children pane is it possible to have the Burial tag date (year) shown if there is no Primary Death Tag? I find it frustrating going back to people that I seem not to have "finished" when in actual fact they died before 1837 and the best we can do in the UK is generally the date of burial. I realise that I could enter bef "burial date" into a superfluous death tag but that would be redundant for all other purposes, except of course that the same applies to the Project Explorer. Paul Paul Ballard TMG Gold V7 UK

I am using WinVista 64 bit with TMG 7.04 and VCF Build Date: Sep 1 2007 21:01:58 [3, 2, 0, 13] (Gold). Up until a few days ago all was well with vcf but now it appears to have got a mind of its own! If I try to produce a descendant chart it allocates children between the known wife and an invented "Unknown Person". I have done nothing to any of the relationships that I am trying to chart since the last time I succesfully did it. I have tried deleting the child/parent link and reinstating but that does not affect the outcome and I have run file integrity with no reported errors. Anyone got any bright ideas? Paul

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. After several optimize and VFI plus setting No Threshold and Blank Surety VCF is now behaving itself again!

Hi Michael, Well, as you say "a matter of opinion" and whilst I entirely agree that the two events are distinct there is nevertheless a single trigger for burial which is death - unless you happen to have one of the few ancestors who were buried alive! Compare the treatment of birth & baptism, also two distinct events, and death/burial is inconsistent. Thus creating a custom tag for DeathasBurial or whetever is simply a workaround for the fact that in 99.99% of pre-1837 cases in England there will be no death date in the same way that there is no birth date. Best wishes, Paul

Thanks guys I appreciate your assistance. The next obvious question is why are we struggling with "work arounds" to produce something which, for anyone with family histories pre-dating periods where date of death is common (1837 in the UK), should simply be a logical extension of the software "IF no death tag THEN use burial tag"?? I have 18,000 entries in my database with about 40% pre-dating 1837 and I don't fancy re-editing that lot to work around the problem - perhaps an enhancement in Version 8? Paul