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From: Dave Flower< >
Subject: TMG-L: Re: Two questions about the Modified Register report
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 20:06:30 -0400


I miss-typed when I wrotr "LIST SERVER". I meant to type "TMG LIST Group"

>
>> 1. Where is the switch that turns on the plus sign in front of children that
>> have information about them carried forward in the report?
>
>As I remember the + sign is in the modified register report where every
>person is assigned a number and those that have descendants have the +
>sign.
>
>In the register report, each child of a person is assigned a roman
>numberal and those that have children are assigned a number.
>
>See Page 83 of the manual.
>
Yes, I know that the Modified Register report does as you described as
well as Pg 83 in the manual.

That is the report that I'm using now and have for some time. Some time ago
the pluses disappeared and I looked throughout the manual and the options
on-line without success. I asked someone at the TMG booth about it and "Oh
that is such and such option that isn't apparent". Sure enough it did the
trick but I didn't write it down on Pg 83 and I'm right back where I was
before. As I remember it was a toggle option and had a general term assigned
to it.

> 2. How do I specify, in the filter, so as to obtain a Modified Register
>> report that will generate descendants reports of all my branches and doesn't
>> duplicate descendants found in another branch after one generation.
>>
>
>I believe this is automatically done as I can't find any reference to it
>in the manual and I know the MR reports works that way.
>
>I am not sure what you want. If you want all the descendants of one
>ancestor then just select prompt when generated in the focus tab. I
>have run such a report for 4 ancestors but I found the ancestor and
>their IDs and put is the focus ID number = xxx or Id number = yyy etc.
>
>There are filters such as "Is an ancestor of you and father ID is blank
>and mother ID is blank" However this might exclude people you want and
>include some you don't want.
>
I was looking for a filter because I have more than the eight filter
spaces and I often don't know all of the ancestors in the data set that I'm
working on. You gave me a lead and I got it:

Filter:

Is an Ancestor of Person Number my number and
Sex flag equals m and
Father* ID # is Less than 1 and
Mother* ID # is less than 1

Thanks for the lead - now I have to get the plus sign back.

Dave

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