Re: Confusing filter result

There is a "People probably alive" filter available which takes a date 
argument.

It is probably an Addon so needs to be downloaded if you cannot find it 
in the General Filters of the People filters

George Baynes

On 20/12/2022 19:02, Harvey Nimmo 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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