Person details missing

[Lloyd Gledhill]

I am just starting to learn how to use GP.

In the first book which I have made there are several persons mentioned as the children of a parent but there are no details.  The children's names do not have a link to their details.

I am using the same database which I use for Second Site and SS gives all the details of the children.

Sometimes the first child in a family has a link to their details, but the following children do not.

At first glance, this seems only to occur with some persons born in the last 100 years.

My data file is a TMG file, not a GEDCOM.

What is the problem?

Thanks,

Lloyd

[Chris Sackett]

Lloyd,

The children's pages will appear in the book only if you specify their Inclusion. If you check the Contents of your chapters, you will see that some children are Included and others are not. See User Items > Chapter People in the Help pages. If the missing persons are those born in the last 100 years, this suggests you have a setting to exclude living persons.

Chris Sackett

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[Lloyd Gledhill]

Thanks, Chris.

You have helped solve the problem.  I didn't realise that Exclude Living People was the default in the People settings.  I've now unchecked that option.

However,  before that, my own details (NB a living person) were shown despite the default Exclude Living People being enabled, though my living siblings did not have their details shown.  This happened in other families with living persons.  So I was distracted from considering the Living People option.

Anyway all's well now

Lloyd

[John Cardinal]

Lloyd,

 

> However,  before that, my own details (NB a living person) were shown despite the default Exclude Living People being enabled

 

There are two outcomes to consider: who is included, and what details are shown.

 

A person who is included gets their own person page entry. Who is included depends on two factors: the Person Filter in the People Section, and the Chapter People Items you add to chapters. (There are several types of Chapter People items.)

 

A person—included or not—may have some information shown, such as their name. That is controlled by the People Section properties under the subtitles “For Included Living”, “For Excluded Unlimited”, and “For Excluded Living”. What exactly is shown is also influenced by the “Limit Details for Living People” property.

 

If Exclude Living People is checked, GP will not include living people, but some information may be shown.

 

When reading a TMG project, whether GP considers someone living or not solely depends on the person’s Living flag in TMG. If the Living flag is set to N, GP considers the person deceased. If the Living flag has some other value (Y or ?), GP considers the person living.

 

For GEDCOM files, most of which do not include living flags, the rules for determining whether a person is living or not are described at the end of the People Section Help page.

 

John Cardinal

 

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[Lloyd Gledhill]

Thank you very much for that explanation, John.

I will study what you said so that I understand things better

Lloyd

[John Cardinal]

Lloyd,

 

It’s harder to explain than it is to use. The main things to remember are the People Section properties—including the Exclude Living People property—and the Chapter People items.

 

I forget a point. I wrote:

> Who is included depends on two factors: the Person Filter in the People Section

 

The People.Exclude Living People property is part of the “Person Filter”, not just the Person Filter property itself.

 

John Cardinal

 

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Thank you very much for that explanation, John.