Ian,
I think you have to play with the reports and charts and also think
about what the group is interested in and how much they are interested.
I work with Descendant Charts from the relevant grandparents and then
ancestors with grandparents in the second generation. To do this I have
a fake person with a family photo as "sibling" of my parent and run
Ancestor charts/books from that person but make them Invisible for
Descendant Chart/books.
However next time I'd include a chart from the best known set of great
grandparents showing just the lines to the second/third cousins known to
the family. To do this I'd do what I do to show relationship between DNA
matches. Use the Relationship Calculator Options to tag relationship
lines, then export the tag group to a new temporary file and chart from
there.
Cathy
Ian Thomas <mailto:[email protected]>
Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:59
I would appreciate advice about some Legacy reports (and perhaps
charts – not sure).
I don’t use the reports much, and lately only those with (Legacy
Family Tree names) *Ancestor Book (#1) *and *Descendant Book (#2)*.
For a get-together of relatives on my father’s side, I want to
generate a small number of printed or PDF reports, though I can see
that those (#1, #2) when more than about 4 generations they can be
many pages.
Is there one that is suitable, that includes ancestors of my father
and also includes his father _and all of his father’s siblings_, and
then those ancestors from his grandfather back several more generations?
(I think that reflects the interests of the group that will be meeting
in a few weeks).
Or would it be more appropriate to display those siblings (ie, those
at the level of my grandfather) in a separate report or as a cart?
Ian T.
I.L. Thomas, Western Australia
Ian Thomas <mailto:[email protected]>
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 11:12
Cathy, thanks. That worked OK.
*[lifespan]* is the available term - if using _Abt_ in the Born or
Died, it will appear, so I get *Descendants of Alexander McCully Snr
(Abt 1795-1868)* for those actual b. and d. which in my database are
as *Abt 1795* and *26 May 1868*
The extra parameter needs to be set for “cover page” and for the
“page headers”
Ian
Cathy Pinner <mailto:[email protected]>
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:55
Ian,
Click the Help button on the screen where you can edit the Header. It
will have a section or I think it's a link to the Report Title codes
that can be used.
The Help really is helpful.
Cathy
Ian Thomas <mailto:[email protected]>
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 22:23
I would like to add a very simple enhancement to my Descendant Book
Report - at the very top pages
The Heading Layout has a section "Title at the top of Page 1" where
the template is Descendants of [*FullName*]
So, it generates *Descendants of David Thomas* - when within a
_Descendant view_ in Legacy interface, I have set a descendants of N
generations for that individual.
It would be nice to be able to enhance this to include the parameters
[*Birth Date*] and [*Death Date*] after the selected top-level
person's name.
Can I do that?
It would be nice to display *Descendants of David Thomas (Abt 1810 - 4
Jun 1887)*
.. and to have it nicely centred and placed on the pages, by
configuring the _Heading Layout_ within the designer.
I.L. Thomas, Western Australia
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendant Book Reports - configuration is a bit
convoluted, but excellent display
I have been creating some Descendant Book Reports and it appears to
have some peculiarities, which I thought were minor problems.
Specifically, I created a report with 5 generations, and with its Name
Index, 2-column, it was 23 pages in length.
It has a Table of Contents, and that has the very helpful First
Generation, Second Generation, ..., Fifth Generation, and Name
Index page numbers.
(these were on pages 1,3,9,16,20, and 22)
For some reason, I was not getting a page number on any of the 23
pages. The Page Setup | Headings and Page Numbers tab seems to be
the place to set this to give a centred page number at the bottom.
Getting to the report settings for this is in itself a little
confusing: the Report Options tab at the base of the
configuration/settings needs to be selected, but it is the right
margin area of that - the non-coloured, narrow section with a box [
Page Headers, Footers... ] which must be clicked.
(a bit hard to describe - needs some step-by-step pictures of the
report settings)
Then, the Page Number Position section of that page requires attention
to select Bottom Centre.
However, it is a very comprehensive method for displaying the Legacy
data in a way that "ordinary people" can understand. I regard it as an
excellent means to explain the connections of generations.
I.L. Thomas, Western Australia
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