Re: [Gramps-users] Is there a problem with Filters

[Robby <zy...@ya...>]

>> Doug wrote
>>> Perhaps you could check whether the extraneous names are
>>> *spouses* of people who do belong in the search results. 

I can confirm your findings that only certain wives maiden names appear when
I search for the husbands surname. No husbands appear when I search for the
wives surname. 

>>If you look at the extraneous names (the spouses) do the names of their
husbands or wives 
>>(the ones who ought to be selected) appear under Alternative Names?

The wives maiden names that are listed have the Alternative Names listed
with the married name.
The wives maiden names that should be listed, but don't, do NOT have the
Alternative Names listed with the married name. So that explains why they
don't appear.

It is quite difficult to spot what is absent and to get a full picture tho
!!!

The husband's records do not have wives maiden names listed under the
Alternative Names as far as I can see.

>>If so, can you tell us how those people got into your family tree?

All individuals on the database I checked had been manually entered by
myself and I had not put any Alternative Names in as far as I can recall. So
this must have been done automatically by GRAMPS. I stand to be corrected on
this tho.

I thought that the differences might be because a marriage event had not
been completed. 
But this was not the case on several examples that I looked at ie: They all
had marriage events completed.


>>in my own tree where, for a woman, her husband's name is entered as one of
her Alternative Names; 

Confirmed (most of the time).

>>and for a man, his wife's name appears as one of his Alternative Names. 

I didn't find this on any records that I looked at. The maiden name of the
wife shouldn't be on a husband's Alternative Name record should it ? That
would need to be explained if different.

>>I'm wondering whether my relative had entered the husband and wife names
in this peculiar fashion or whether it's a quirk of the way gramps
interpreted the data when importing it. 

Maybe.

The search function does seem to be working correctly.
The question does seem to be how the wives married Alternative Names
(husband's surname) are entered into GRAMPS and why do some wives not have
these details. Entering the marriage event doesn't seem to do it.




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