Paula, Please see below
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Multiple Lines of Descent report---was: What about the future of my... Ron, I'm testing this out. If I understand you correctly, to get what is a "paper dump" of all my Legacy data, I would run this report for the MRIN's of the oldest couples of ALL my ancestral lines. Am I on the right track? # Yes Based on another thread, I've found all my "oldest ancestors"... those with no parents... in the miscellaneous search. There are 67. At worst, that's ~33 marriages. And in many cases, there's no marriage at all. I have a list report # If there are ancestors then there must by a MRIN. Legacy will create a 'marriage' for single people with children. If there are not children then they cannot be ancestors :-) that shows each of the 67 with their spouse (probably just their first spouse, at a glance), and one or more "spouse's MRIN" --- because I couldn't find the field MRIN to add to that report. # I did not say it would be a small report!! So, if I print this out, I can then (by hand) remove the duplicate MRIN's and verify the MRIN's for multiple spouses (I would want only the marriages that are MY ancestors, right?) and then key those in for the Multiple Lines of Descent report. Right? # Not quite sure of your point here. Under the Report Options multiple spouses can be excluded and duplicate lines can be excluded - use the 'Include' and 'Format' Tabs respectively. It says I should enter these MRIN's in the order *I* want them to be in the report. Would that be oldest to youngest? Or maybe "left to right" across an ancestor chart? ("top to bottom" on a pedigree chart) And does it matter that these MRIN's are not the same number of generations from me? # I have used left to right, and, No, the depth of generations does not matter Still seems like some things would fall through the cracks, but there is no real "dump" besides a GEDCOM is there? # You would still have to sort them all out to create a GEDCOM - a GEDCOM will not do this for you. I had originally thought a good "dump" report would be the Ancester book, but then all the descendents of siblings are lost. So, maybe both... one report "up" and one report "down." # Correct the two are very different. Thanks! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams ________________________________ From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, August 8, 2011 11:03:43 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What about the future of my genealogy data I am pretty sure that the report which will contain the maximum data from one’s database would be “Lines of Multiple Descentâ€. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk 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
