Hi Andrea, As the Plugin author I welcome your feedback. It would be very easy for the Plugin to be adapted to recognise a Fact (or something else) to omit an Individual from the Missing Facts list. The Plugin could even offer to create a Custom Fact Set definition (or whatever) using an interface button. The community just needs to decide what name to assign to the Fact (or whatever) - suggestions welcome. The problem with a Fact is that it is recording a Non-Event, which is a little unusual, and needs special attention to avoid its inclusion in Reports, etc. There is also a small number of Censuses that took place in different countries on the same date: 2 Apr 1871 UK and Canada 5 Apr 1891 UK and Australia 31 Mar 1901 UK and Canada and Australia So maybe we need an Fact named "Missing From Census" with its Place including the Country and the Date set to the Census Year. The Sentence Template could be something like {individual} did not appear in the Census {place} {date} Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Kent Sent: 23 November 2013 12:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [FHU] Missing Census Facts I have been using the above plugin, which is very useful, but have identified one issue which I wonder if anyone has a way to solve? I have a couple of ancestors who, although they were alive, will never appear in certain UK censuses as they were abroad serving in the Army/Navy, etc. I have tried putting in a fact with the exact census date stating where they were, but they still show up as 'missing census facts'. Is there any way to eliminate them from these checks (short of putting in a 'dummy' census event, which I don't really want to do)? Andrea

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 ________________________________ From: Beryl & Mike Tate <[email protected]> To: 'Andrea Kent' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013, 18:01 Subject: Re: [FHU] Missing Census Facts Hi Andrea, As the Plugin author I welcome your feedback. It would be very easy for the Plugin to be adapted to recognise a Fact (or something else) to omit an Individual from the Missing Facts list. The Plugin could even offer to create a Custom Fact Set definition (or whatever) using an interface button. The community just needs to decide what name to assign to the Fact (or whatever) - suggestions welcome. The problem with a Fact is that it is recording a Non-Event, which is a little unusual, and needs special attention to avoid its inclusion in Reports, etc. There is also a small number of Censuses that took place in different countries on the same date: 2 Apr 1871 UK and Canada 5 Apr 1891 UK and Australia 31 Mar 1901 UK and Canada and Australia So maybe we need an Fact named "Missing From Census" with its Place including the Country and the Date set to the Census Year. The Sentence Template could be something like {individual} did not appear in the Census {place} {date} Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Kent Sent: 23 November 2013 12:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [FHU] Missing Census Facts I have been using the above plugin, which is very useful, but have identified one issue which I wonder if anyone has a way to solve? I have a couple of ancestors who, although they were alive, will never appear in certain UK censuses as they were abroad serving in the Army/Navy, etc. I have tried putting in a fact with the exact census date stating where they were, but they still show up as 'missing census facts'. Is there any way to eliminate them from these checks (short of putting in a 'dummy' census event, which I don't really want to do)? Andrea ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message