Re: Confusing filter result

Thanks. Yes, and it is much more 'generous' (i.e. more positive
results) than my simple idea. Not sure why, of course.

Cheers
Harvey

On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 21:24 +0000, [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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