I should have said that to solve your problem of someone just visiting the USA, or any other non-specific reason to be abroad, could simply have a Residence Fact for the Census Date with any Place name that indicates where they are staying. e.g. Fact: Residence Date: 30 Mar 1851 Place: USA That would prevent them being listed as missing from the UK 1851 Census. There may need to be several similar Facts for various Dates to prevent someone being listed missing from other Census years &/or countries. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Kent Sent: 24 November 2013 23:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Missing Census Facts Thanks Mike for an amazingly fast solution! Just off to bed now, but will try it out tomorrow. Andrea ________________________________ From: Beryl & Mike Tate <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2013, 23:00 Subject: Re: [FHU] Missing Census Facts I have given this some more thought and believe I have a solution similar to your suggestion. Naturally there must be no Census Event for the Census Year in question. Then the person will be listed with a missing Census unless the following conditions apply. The idea of a Fact with exactly the same single Date as the Census Date works very well. For various reasons I won't bore you with, it cannot be a Period, Range, or Quarter Date nor have any Qualifiers. Its Place field must contain some text that does NOT match the Census Country being searched. e.g. For the U.K. Census the recognised Country names I have chosen are England, Wales, Scotland, UK and U.K. Such names must be delimited by a comma & space or be at the start or end of the Place field. This prevents place names such as New England or New South Wales being falsely recognised as a U.K. Census country. Overriding all that is a tick box to enable/disable this feature and maintain compatibility with earlier versions of the Plugin. If you would like to try my candidate new V3.0 Plugin then download and install it from my SkyDrive store: http://sdrv.ms/1hbQUuj It will replace V2.9 but if there are any problems then V2.9 can be re-installed from the FH Plugin Store, although it will reset to installation default settings. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beryl & Mike Tate Sent: 23 November 2013 20:47 To: 'Andrea Kent'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Missing Census Facts Andrea, I guess any Fact  with a Date or Date Range/Period that matched the Census Date, but in a different Country than the chosen Census records, would be enough. That would also resolve the problem of the common Census Dates for different Countries. The trickiest bit is deciding the Country is different, because it may be recorded as England or Wales or U.K. rather than UK, or U.S.A. instead of USA, etc. Whatever rules the Plugin uses they must work for all users and for all Census Countries and Dates, not just the UK. I will give it a bit more thought. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Kent Sent: 23 November 2013 18:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Missing Census Facts Thanks Mike, I will have a think about this, and come back to you. My first reaction is that I don't really like a 'non-event' -  but possibly a real event (e.g. serving in the 85th Foot Regiment) with the same date as the census, but with a different country (e.g. Ireland)?? How easy would it be to identify that if such an fact existed (and there was no census fact for that date) and the country was not UK, then that individual would not appear in the missing list? For the other case I mentioned (someone not in the Forces, but just visiting the US for an extended period), I guess I would just have to think of some other fact (visiting??) to meet the criteria. If I think of other possibilities, will let you know.   Regards, Andrea