Paula,

As it is then end of the month (web update time) I cannot really devote enough 
time to examine this. However, I have run your first paragraph and the total 
tagged and untagged is #1 greater than the number of records shown as per 
General Information.

So, it looks as though anything which I may do has failed at first base.

Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/


From: Paula Ryburn
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] relationship to parent field blank but not really blank???

Been pulling my hair out on this one.

I searched for individuals with relationship to father equal to blank.  (1875)
Then I tagged those.  (#3)
Then I searched for individuals not tagged on #3.  (777)
That does equal my total number of individuals.

Then I searched for individuals with relationship to father equal to each of 
the values in the drop down list to see what the heck was going on.
However, I found only 11 "adopted" and 6 "unproven" ...that's IT.
What's up with the other 760 that were supposed to be not blank?

I got to this point, because I'm trying to mass source a book (to all fields 
with a value), and the results are showing the source being assigned to the 
relationship to father and mother fields on 100's of people.  I do not use 
those fields very often and long ago zapped the "Natural" that had been 
populated there on my original import in 2004.  So this does not look right at 
all.

In just looking at the list of individuals, it seems if a person does not have 
a father (or it's listed as "unknown") then the individual is treated as though 
there is something in the relationship to father field---in both the search 
logic AND in the mass sourcing logic.  (ditto for the mother field)  Does that 
make sense?

Can anyone recreate this?  Or explain it?  Or tell me how I might get around it?

Thanks in advance,
--Paula in Texas
Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman 
Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field 
Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle 
Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche 
Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams

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