A Children Status Report

Alexander....... got a fix for this aspect yet?

 

I understand, but my question is whether FTA ignores such records under an individual as I don't know if I can produce them elsewhere.
I am having to modify the code of a FHS product. I have already done that to produce the Lost Cousins events and it would be much easier for me if the Children Status records could be written at the same time/place.

 

FHS Product?

 

Yes, Family History Software product. In my case, GenoPro.

Lost Cousins recordings are not a standard part of the released product so every time that a modification is shipped to update the Gedcom file generation part of the product, I need to reinsert my changes which produce the Lost Cousins records, and now the Children Status records too.

 

I have manually copied the Children Status records . . .

Code:

1 EVEN Total 0, Alive 0, Dead 0
2 TYPE Children Status
2 DATE 1911

from the individual part of my Gedcom file into what I believe is the appropriate family section, immediately following the listing of HUSB, WIFE and CHIL but before the MARR records.

I then reloaded the modified file into FTA but still don't get the desired contents of the Mismatched Children Status report.
Please can I have more information about just what FTA is expecting?

 

Thanks, Tim. That is similar to what I now have for Lost Cousins facts but they are related to individuals rather than families.

GenoPro allows a vast range of additional custom tags to be created for data entry but there are no facilities provided for user enhancement of Gedcom file creation. The standard report writer skin does not process such user defined data. I have already asked for user exits (**) to be provided within the report skin so that such modifications do not need to be continually reworked. I have not had any reply to my request.

(**) Possibly as dummy/empty subroutines/includes shipped with the standard product which can then be enhanced by users without being removed when the next system update is released.

My immediate need is for more details about how FTA will process the records which I generate. You have kindly shown me the format of those records but it appears that perhaps I am not creating them in the correct place within the file. I have added extra fields to my Lost Cousins tab for data entry and it would be easiest for me to write those records at the same time as the Lost Cousins records. It all depends on whether FTA can be made to recognize and use those Children Status records from that place in the file.

 

That looks similar to how I have manually inserted the records in my file but the report does not get produced.

Code:

0 @fam02185@ FAM
1 HUSB @ind07248@
1 WIFE @ind07265@
1 CHIL @ind07266@
1 CHIL @ind07267@
1 CHIL @ind07268@
1 EVEN Total 0, Alive 0, Dead 0
2 TYPE Children Status
2 DATE 1911
1 MARR
2 DATE 1882
2 PLAC Kensington, London, England

I have also changed some of the figures and found that FTA does not seem to do any balance checks. It does not mind if Total does not equal the sum of Alive and Dead. Perhaps Alexander has made allowance for my suggestion of a category of Undead?

 

I have not created a new Family Custom Tag as there is already a Family Tag in the base product. As I said earlier, that could be a messy approach involving parent records. I would prefer to keep things as simple as possible. That is why I have tried adding extra fields to the Lost Cousins Tag.

Although you are treating Children Status as a shared fact, the figures are reported against the female partner on the census form so that is how I have entered them. I hope that Alexander will be able to apply that information to the relevant family via the FAMS specification for that individual.

I have used the insert code that you supplied for Lost Cousins records and added similar code to produce the zero records shown in previous post.

Code:

if (this.GetTagValue(i, 'Census1911') == "Y")
{
Report.WriteText("1 EVEN\n");
Report.WriteText("2 TYPE Lost Cousins\n");
Report.WriteText("2 DATE 1911\n");
}

if (this.GetTagValue(i, 'ChildrenTotal1911') > 0)
{
Report.WriteText("1 EVEN Total 0, Alive 0, Dead 0\n");
Report.WriteText("2 TYPE Children Status\n");
Report.WriteText("2 DATE 1911\n");
}

However, I cannot use WriteText to output variable values which is why I used zeros at first just to produce something to check things out. That has the added advantage of causing a mismatch which should produce a report.

 

I actually enter the value of number of children rather than the character 'Y'. The Gedcom records get produced as soon as I enter a non-zero numeric value. For test purposes, I then copy the generated records from the individual portion of the Gedcom and insert into the family portion. I am wondering if FTA has some other requirement which it is checking and that I have missed.

 

What should I do in the case where it looks as if the 1911 census form was completed incorrectly?

In 1891, the census return (366/57/5) shows Harry and Caroline Hart living with 6 children.
In 1901, the census return (1600/137/13) shows Harry and Caroline Hart living with 8 children.
In 1911, the census return (1101/100) shows Caroline (Head and widow) living with just one of her sons, also shown in 1891 and 1901.

That all looks fine until the Children Status is viewed on the original hand written 1911 census form completed by Caroline.
That records Total 2, Alive 1, Dead 1.
Caroline also states that she was married 24 years (1881-1906) and I believe that she had 11 (or 12?) children between 1881 and 1903.
I have not (yet) identified any of the known 11 as having died prior to the 1911 census.

One missing/erased stroke of the pen seems credible but surely not two (Total 12, Alive 11, Dead 1).

 

The mist is beginning to clear. There are TWO places in GenoPro where one can create Custom Tags for families.
The one that I knew about is reached from the standard Individual's Record for the children of a family.
The other one that you are probably referring to is reached from Family Properties where marriage details (etc) are entered. I had never looked that far until now and I think that is exactly what is required. Not as convenient for data entry but might save Alexander the hassle of converting individual data to family data in FTA for this situation (issue 13392).

I have also heard back from Genome and he has just produced a new skin for Export to Gedcom which should enable user enhancements for Custom Tags to be written to the output file without modifying the skin, and automatically carried over to future versions!!! I hope to have further details in a day or two.