I am preparing a large family tree diagram and using the census have a number of birth dates which I have categorised as estimated (I think it better to use estimated rather than calculated as although a particular year is the more likely year it could be the following year). When I use the ‘Birth, Marriage, Death’ group of Text Schemes these dates show up as, say, 1853 (est) but when I use the ‘Names, Dates’ group it shows up as 1853?. I have put together my own custom scheme based on the ‘Names, Dates’ group as I am trying to reduce the space the boxes require. But I cannot see how to get rid of the question mark and put in the (est) instead – I feel that (est) rather than a question mark shows that there is a better degree of certainty about the date. I suspect it cannot be done having looked at the Date Format section in the Help section – but if it can I would be grateful for a simple explanation as to how to do it as I am not a programmer! Joan

On 7 August 2011 19:08, <stevens@nwthree.demon.co.uk> wrote: > But I cannot see how to get rid of the question mark and put in the (est) > instead You could show the year eg %INDI.BIRT[1].DATE:YEAR% and add this =TextIf(%INDI.BIRT.DATE:XDATETYPE% = "Estimated","(est)","") Giving Born: %INDI.BIRT[1].DATE:YEAR%=TextIf(%INDI.BIRT.DATE:XDATETYPE% = "Estimated","(est)","") in %INDI.BIRT.PLAC:TIDY% If you use the other qualifiers you can add them by adding extra textif functions. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

<<snippet>> I am preparing a large family tree diagram and using the census have a number of birth dates which I have categorised as estimated (I think it better to use estimated rather than calculated as although a particular year is the more likely year it could be the following year). When I use the Birth, Marriage, Death group of Text Schemes these dates show up as, say, 1853 (est) but when I use the Names, Dates group it shows up as 1853?. I have put together my own custom scheme based on the Names, Dates group as I am trying to reduce the space the boxes require. But I cannot see how to get rid of the question mark and put in the (est) instead <<snippet>> Assuming you want the Life Dates format of DoB-DoD you could use: %INDI.BIRT.DATE:COMPACT%-%INDI.DEAT.DATE:COMPACT% But this would include the full date of birth/death and not just the year. You could use Jane's suggestion: %INDI.BIRT.DATE:YEAR% =TextIf(%INDI.BIRT.DATE:XDATETYPE%="calculated","(est)","")-%INDI.DEAT.DATE:YEAR% =TextIf(%INDI.DEAT.DATE:XDATETYPE%="calculated","(est)","") Note the change from 'Estimated' to 'calculated' to cater for a bug in FH that swaps XDATETYPE calculated & estimated around. The relationships are: Date Type :XDATETYPE (estimated) calculated (approx.) approx (calculated) estimated Regards, Mike Tate