I'm not against program reports which are optional for use but I must
facetiously ask if you are in the lumber and/or paper business. Using 1 line
per person my descendant report is about 150 pages long. Your request is to
have a program which expands that to 3 lines per person PLUS a line of white
space after each line. That's 6 times the length of my current report or 900
pages. If you show birth, marriage, death and burial, as I do, it becomes
1200 pages. Obviously I would not use such a report but I'm curious about
your perceived benefit.

An alternate suggestion, and one which is possible with some genealogy
programs, would be the ability to design a custom report. It would be an
editable sheet with drag and drop for any of the facts, i. e., birth place,
birth date, marriage place, marriage date, death place, death date, burial
place, etc. Using another program I have constructed such a report for use
when walking cemeteries - it lists all people for whom I do not have a
burial place and only those people. It can even be ported to a word
processor to list in columns to further conserve paper  and bulk. I have
designed other single purpose reports but that is the most useful.

Even the above would not enable a tailor-made report for each individual
idiosyncrasy but it would come close if properly designed.

Hugh

[edited for brevity of response]

>From: Bob Bashford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New report needed ... very easy to program ...
>Thanks for all your suggestions ... but I don't think any of them
>get what I want ... which is a separate line for birth, marriage, and death
>... I do have Genviewer and think it's a wonderful program, but I don't see
>any way to get three lines for each person ... nor does the "print" option
>on the Legacy name list do it ... it'll produce one line for each person
>... not the three I want.

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