Well, Jim, if the census says "none", then I enter it as none. You
could add a note to that event saying that other documention (or
whatever) indicates that he was indeed employed but the census was in
error. Would that take care of it for you? Good point you brought up.
As a 3-week user, I've got a lot to learn.
Elsie Scharpf Saar
Genealogy research
American: Parks, Avann, Bulson, Soden, Menkens
German: Wienecke, Storz, Scharpf, Saar, Stelzer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Winfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: January 31, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] If-then-else statements - solution
Elsie,
This has been an intriguing path through some pretty neat logic.
Thanks for getting it going. One concern I'm left with is how do you
know whether the person was unemployed or whether the occupation was
just unknown or not reported? I run into this constantly. Folks I
know were farmers, for instance, are not reported as employed on
various census reports.
Jim
On 1/30/06, Elsie Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My problems and my solutions.....
I enter None for people who do not have an occupation in the census.
I
needed a way to generate the sentence
"He was not employed on 6 May 1930." I didn't want to use an
alternate
sentence for everyone, thinking there must be an easier way.
Therefore, following Don's suggestion in the event fields I enter:
eventname = occupation
desc = [[none]]
date = 6 May 1930
The sentence structure for when only the desc and date are filled
becomes
[:IF [Desc] :: [heshe] was employed as [desc] [ondate] :: [heshe]
was
not employed [ondate]].[sources][notes]
I also like to use an event called Relationship where I enter a
person's relationship to either my husband or myself. I use None as
a
desc in this event field to let me know the person is not related
and
that I have already checked for a relationship. My values read:
eventname = Relationship
desc = [[none]]
The sentence structure for when none of the fields are filled in is:
[date]. Since there is no date, no sentence appears. This might not
be
kosher, but it works for me.
Once again, thanks for your help.
Elsie
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