Hi Jerry Can you find an individual that has an invisible date, tag that person, and then export a gedcom of all the tagged persons data? If so you might see the date in the gedcom.
Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand On 12/09/2011 4:30 p.m., Jerry wrote: > UPDATE: The dates that are VISIBLE, but without any accompanying event > information, are MARRIAGE EVENTS. When I searched for EVENT DATE by > itself, I also got nothing for year 2010, but when I searched for > MARRIAGE EVENT DATES, that's when I get the hits for the VISIBLE dates. > > But I have to use SEARCH and REPLACE and just search for EVENT DATES to > get the dates which are NOT VISIBLE when I go to the records. The > regular FIND does not bring up the same information. > > Are FIND and SEARCH and REPLACE supposed to work in exactly the same way > in their search routines? It's a bit confusing - wonder what the > purpose was for two distinct modules unless the programmers thought > people would accidentally replace something they did not intend to do, > but it's not automatic without giving the command anyway. > > Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org > > On 9/11/2011 9:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> That is very strange. I tried doing a search for any event dates after 2010 >> and I got no hits. There is an option in the searches to search for >> modified date. If you had chosen that by accident you could easily get a >> ton of people with 2010-2011 dates but they wouldn't be attached to an >> event. I wonder if when you imported the GEDCOM something strange happened. >> >> michele >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jerry >> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:34 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Invisible Embedded Dates ?? >> >> Hi there. Where would those dates show up, Michele? In my situation, >> the dates in question are INVISIBLE - I can't see them anywhere, but I >> can SEARCH for date contains 2010 (for example) and the records show up >> in my search criteria. But going to the records does not show these >> dates anywhere. Very weird. >> >> Another facet to this problem (and why I started to do these searches) >> is that there are some dates that do show up, such as 27 August 2010, >> etc., but they are attached to EVENTS that are completely blank. So, I >> simply delete them, but I'm not sure how I can globally delete them >> because there is no event name. Everything is blank except the dates. >> >> I do not have the luxury of starting anything over from my cousin's >> gedcom, etc., because I've already done major work on this file and it >> does not appear to be corrupt and the file I'm working on is well over >> 10,000 individuals. The information is good, other than this weird >> dating thing that I cannot explain. >> >> Has anyone ever experienced anything that resembles this at all? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
