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From: Sue Badeaux <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Descendant narrative (was: foster and trees)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 06:18:04 -0500


Allen,
A friend of mine asked me how to generate a report with basic facts
(BDMB) about everyone in his database (small) with an index. He wants to
take this with him when researching. Will the procedure you described
accomplish that?
Sue Badeaux
> Allen Mellen wrote:
> Ian Singer wrote:
> >I have been saying I want a
> >descendant narrative to show everyone, and couldn't figure out how. As
> >an interim I set up 7 different focuses, but that only gives about 400
> >people out of 530. Dave Connover said run the report as:
> >
> > Father ID=0 or
> > Mother ID=0 end
> >
> >That created another set of problems ... <snip>
> >
> >What I want is descendant narratative. I want it to start at the oldest
> >date and work down. I want it to show my blood line and all the
> >ancestors of everyone that married into the family. When two trees
> >overlap I want one to stop and a link into the main one. Is it do-able?
> >I am not even sure to find out who I am missing without printing off a
> >list of everyone and manually comparing it to who is in tree now.
> >
> Here's what I suggest: [Warning, this is rather long]
>


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