Robacis, Thank you for that feedback - very useful. I will add your advice to the FHUG Knowledge Base tutorials for AS. AS does mention the importance of running the Census Date Check in the Help, but you have to follow the links from Census Flag Settings via Census Flag Check to Census Date Check to read:- "Census facts in the GEDCOM family history file that have been created prior to using Ancestral Sources (or predecessor Gedcom Census) may not have accurate dates for censuses recorded. For example, a UK 1901 census fact might have the date 1901 rather than the more accurate 31 Mar 1901. If you wish to make use of the Census Flag Check feature of Ancestral Sources it is recommended that you first try to ensure that existing census facts have dates that match those in Ancestral Sources." Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: 07 February 2012 12:01 To: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Problem with flags Some weeks ago I raised the issue of Ancestral Sources apparently corrupting the FH gedcom file and doing some nasty things such a losing some multimedia from FH. Some kind contributors mentioned various ways to solve the problem and I grateful for the suggestions, but to no avail. I now seem to have solved the problem so this message for the benefit of those who find themselves in the same position. It stems from the fact that the original gedcom file was created in Family Tree Maker and the Census dates were shown as the year of the census not the actual date. Ancestral Sources seemed not to like this and hence corrupted the file. The solution is to run "Census date check" in Ancestral Sources before trying to update the flags. by saving the Census data. Having run this check and reallocated the censuses by the actual date, once this had been done Ancestral Sources happily updated the gedcom file correctly and all the correct flags were shown in FH. So for anyone importing a file to FH or anyone using AS for the first time it seems essential to run this check before trying to input data Robacis ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message