Re: Confusing filter result

@Emyoulation's suggestions are good. I would add one more: create another
filter that returns the inverse selection of your custom filter, so that
you can easily see who's getting excluded (you could sort the resulting
list by birth or death date) -- just to make sure your filter is working as
intended.

The "People probably alive" rule is also affected by your preferences, and
if you're using the default age limit of 110 years, then it's really more
like people "possibly" alive, as any given person is really not "probably"
going to live that long.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 3:27 PM Emyoulation--- via Gramps-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Yahoo's reformatting line breaks on a message during send is VERY
> aggravating!!! Trying again:
>
>
>     On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 02:04:11 PM CST, Emyoulation--- via
> Gramps-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   You could use a rule created to make Person custom filters specifically
> for such a purpose.
> This rule is better than w because it doesn't require both a Birth and
> Death events to exist.  It can consider the people around each person too.
>
> In the People view:
>
> 1) create a custom filter.
> (With a freshly Rest filter gramplet, click the Edit icon at the far right
> of the Custom filter; or, Select "Person Filter Editor" from the Edit
> menu.)
>
> 2) Define a name ( a comment is also a good thing) like "Alive in 1921"
>
> 3) Add a rule to the Rule List
>
> 4) find the "People probably alive" rule (It is under "General' but the
> easiest way is to type 'alive' in the text field at the top beside the
> Magnifying Glass icon.)
>
> 5) select the "People probably alive" rule
>
> 6) enter ' June 1921" for the rule's "On date:"       (Given how often
> people 'fibbed' about Ages, I might use "between 1919 and 1923" instead of
> the exact date of the census.)
>
> 7) click 'OK' to commit the rule to the list
>
> 8) click 'OK' to commit the filter definition
>
> 9) click 'Find' to locate the appropriate people
>
> Because this is a complex filter, you would be well advised to take
> advantage of the "Add/Remove Tag Tool" 3rd Party Add-on Family Tree
> Processing -> Tool.  Add a tag based on the Filter Results.
>
> Using the Filter Gramplet to filter on a Tag rather will be much faster
> than a Custom Filter. The performance benefit multiplies when the view
> repeatedly refreshes.
>
>
>
>     On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 01:05:28 PM CST, 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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