Re: [LegacyUG] Fuller Reports

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I, too, would like an option of a fuller ancestor-centered report.  The 
answer to "where would I stop?" is that I would stop when I have no further 
information on descendants of siblings, which is usually just one or two 
generations down.  This is what I am trying to create right now, by 
transferring various pieces into Word Perfect, and the problem of having 
end-notes match the text and be consecutive is looking over-whelming (Word 
Perfect won't adjust them unless they were created there).  The Ancestor 
Book lists the children (with dates) of the various ancestors (of my mother 
in this case), but I am separately importing and revising the notes to 
include spouses, various interesting bits of info, and their children in a 
narrative paragraph - or several if necessary - indented further in on the 
page than the direct line.  After 5 generations up from my mother, just 
pedigree charts are fine for the next 5, because the direct line is all I've 
researched out there.  (There are limits!  And I've still got more on my 
Dad's side and then all my husband's line to find.)  I looked at the 
multiple lines of descent report, but it seemed more confusing than hanging 
extra fruit on a basic tree.               Connie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fuller Reports


Hi Alistair,
But where would you stop?
Children are listed with their details in an Ancestor Report (and thus 
siblings) and you have the option of including their spouses. If you 
included their notes and events, do you also include their children? (and 
do you include the direct line ancestor here amongst the children to match 
their siblings - or in their place as ancestor or both?) If you include 
their children, do you include their children's notes, events - and 
grandchildren? Once you've done that, you surely have entered the realms 
of a descendant report.

How would you see this being set out so that readers can follow the family 
lines? How much information are you wanting to include on the siblings?

Cheers,
Cathy
At 01:28 AM 18/01/2005, you wrote:
Sorry, people, I misquoted Cathy.
She didn't say run a descendant report on each ancestor but to run a
Multiple Line of descent report - which itself combines descendant reports
and does away with the duplication. No problem missing ancestors. Sorry,
Cathy.
But it still begs the question as to whether it wouldn't be better to have
the Ahentafel report (which as far as I can see is the only backward 
looking
report) given the option to include siblings. I would say that all the
reports I print for relatives are of their ancestry, but Legacy includes
three descent reports and only one ancestry report. Is the imbalance 
because
expert genealogists tend to look at descents more than ancestries?

Warm regards ;-)
Alastair
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