Re: [Gramps-users] Database Verification tool question

[Jérôme <rom...@ya...>]

This might be related to get_birth_date() ?
ie. to return date = 0

def get_birth_date(db,person,estimate=False):
     if not person:
         return 0
     birth_ref = person.get_birth_ref()
     if not birth_ref:
         ret = 0
     else:
         ret = get_date_from_event_handle(db,birth_ref.ref)
     if estimate and (ret == 0):
         ret = get_bapt_date(db,person)
     return ret


Is there any 'step child' in the children list ?

Jérôme

b4m a écrit :
> Thank-you Paul and Vlada for helping with this.
> 
> For some of my families it would be true to say that there are dates 
> which include "about" but the family I originally mentioned is as follows:
> child 1 = February 1862
> child 2 = 20 September 1863
> child 3 = 11 February 1866
> child 4 = 22 September 1867
> child 5 = March 1869
> child 6 = December 1873
> child 7 = 26 April 1877
> 
> I have examined the date fields and they are all valid ones, with no 
> typgraphical errors or unrecognised date formats.  So what I have is 
> some valid complete dates and some valid month-and-year only dates.
> 
> This family is returned every time, (also when the 'Estimate missing 
> dates' is checked).  It would seem that the Verification tool is 
> ignoring children 5 and 6 and calculating a 10 year gap between children 
> 4 and 7.
> 
> What you seem to be telling me is that Gramps treats the text string 
> "about" as meaning plus or minus 5 years, which I suppose might be 
> reasonable if the text entered is "about 1800" but it would not seem 
> reasonable to me if the text were "about January 1800".  The UK Births 
> Marriages & Deaths indexes are held by quarter and year, so until you 
> can find additional sources you are going to be holding a lot of dates 
> in the format "about January 1800" (I use Jan, Mar, Jul & Oct as my 
> quarter dates because then if you get an exact Baptism date it will 
> automatically be sorted after the less precise Birth date but I note 
> that others use the quarter end months Mar, Jun, Sept & Dec instead.)
> 
> Paul has said that he gets the same result with a birth which only has 
> the year.  That is, a birth of "1955" will give the same result. 
> Call me old-fashioned, but I would call that a bug.  "How many years are 
> there between 1960 and 1970?" "I can't tell you because you haven't 
> specified the day and month."  I don't think so. 
> 
>  From all of the above, I am guessing that the validation check has been 
> coded to only use a full day-month-year date and to ignore year only or 
> month-and-year combinations.  If this is what was really intended to 
> happen then it would help if it was made clear in the Help text for the 
> Verification tool.
> 
> I will raise this on the Sourceforge site, but I'm not really sure if it 
> is a defect or an "enhancement request"! 
> 
>   
> 
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