I am trying to define a field filter. the filter would be for those individuals where I have a event date but no citation for that date. the event could be a birth date, death date, etc. the source part of the filter does not seem to have the ability to focus on the event but is general to all events. just wanting to verify that I have this right or if there is another way to do this kind of a filter. Larry Simonsen

Hi Larry, Interesting problem - what you seem to want to do is to identify those events that have a date but no associated source citation. There may be a smarter way to do this - but how about the following: For the filter conditions, select "Birth Date" exists AND ("Source" title equals xxxxxxx OR "source" title equals yyyyyyyy OR "source" title equals zzzzzzzz) Where x, y and z (etc.) are the source titles you have that cover the different sources that you have for a birth entry. This will produce a list of individuals who have a birth date and have a source associated with a birth entry - output the report to a Comma Delimited (.txt) file and then open in an Excel spreadsheet. Then do a similar report but defining the filter to only look for those with a birth date that exists. Output the report to a Comma Delimited File and again, open as an excel spreadsheet. You can now copy and paste these two reports/excel spreadsheet together to do a line by line match to highlight those that are in the second list but not in the first (those with a birth date but no associated birth source) Easier to do than describe - but I would be interested if anyone has a better solution. Regards, Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Larry Simonsen [mailto:jlsimonsen@comcast.net] Sent: 08 July 2005 13:18 To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] finding research to be done. I am trying to define a field filter. the filter would be for those individuals where I have a event date but no citation for that date. the event could be a birth date, death date, etc. the source part of the filter does not seem to have the ability to focus on the event but is general to all events. just wanting to verify that I have this right or if there is another way to do this kind of a filter. Larry Simonsen ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== AVG Anti-Virus Users Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.