Re: Confusing filter result

Thanks, George. When I set the ranges to 100 years, the result makes
more set. I had long since forgotten that such a feature existed. It
simply didn't occur to me...ah well....

Cheers
Harvey



On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 13:22 -0600, George Wilmes wrote:
> It's not the filter that's the problem, rather the use of "before"
> and "after". Check your Preferences to see what thresholds are
> defined. Probably they are set to 50 years, such that anyone who was
> already more than 50 years old at the time of the census, or who
> lived 50 years beyond it, would not be selected.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 1:05 PM Harvey Nimmo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I thought I could use the filter form simply to find out which  
> > persons in my database should appear in the 1921 UK Census, i.e.
> > who
> > was alive on 2021-06-19, so that I could go to, say,
> > Scotlandspeople
> > and get their census data.
> > 
> > It seemed logical to enter into the filter form Birth date = before
> > 1921--06-21 and Death date = after 1921-06-19 and Gender = any.
> > Nothing
> > else.
> > 
> > But the filter returned only a limited number of the people who
> > satisfied the filter criteria. Birth and death dates had been
> > entered
> > correctly and completely for a number of other people who should
> > have
> > been listed. 
> > 
> > Why is this not working as desired? I confirm that the birth dates
> > are
> > not baptisms and death dates are not burials for the missing cases.
> > Some of these were people for whom I had already entered the 1921
> > Census data.
> > 
> > I never cease to get frustrated with the filter function.;-(
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Harvey
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 

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