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From: "James P. Colgate" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] v4 Spouse Events on report narratives
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:43:34 -0500
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See my reply at the bottom . . .
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Wolfram
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Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] v4 Spouse Events on report narratives


James P. Colgate <> wrote:

> Bit of an oddity, and I can't explain why . . .
>
> But if I run an ancestor journal narrative and I choose "Spouse Events",
it doesn't do it -- all I see is the husband's details wherever the husband
is described without the wife details, and vice versa.
>
The way it was designed, I think. I don't know why they didn't gray out
"Spouse Events" when you choose an ancestor report. The idea is that your
ancestor's spouse is also your ancestor, and you don't want their biography
printing twice. I know I wouldn't want it in there twice.<g>
The problem with this logic is that your ancestor's spouse is not always
your ancestor. As example, both of my grandfathers were married twice, but
in an ancestor report the only one of their spouses that appear are my
grandmothers. Except for the sentences where it says that my grandfathers
married them, neither my maternal grandfather's first wife nor my paternal
grandfather's second wife is mentioned. Even if I wanted them in an
ancestor report I couldn't do it except in a word processor.

Chuck Wolfram





Thanks Chuck for confirming that "spouse events" don't work for ancestor reports. Your right that in the typical ancestor journal reports, the wife's descriptive paragraph is the one following the husband, so repeating it would not make sense. But in these typical ancestor reports, since the generations multiply the number of people by 2 each time, I'd quickly end up with 64 ancestors paragraphs, so by generation six it would be a jumble of a mess.

So I was trying to get an ancestor report that followed surnames. This the first chapter would be "Colgate", starting with my grandfather Colgate and going back to the dawn of time. So I would want my grandfather's spouse details showing, as well as details of all the women who married each preceding Colgate. Then the next chapter would be King, beginning with my grandmother -- and next to my grandmother King's paragraph I wanted the info from her spouse, my grandfather Colgate -- then the King chapter would go back following the King surname. Each successive chapter was to begin with the female who married into an already-reported line, following her maiden surname back. In this sort of report the spouse details would be important.

But I've given up this idea as there is no simple way to make it happen. Instead, I've gone back to doing a descendent report following the direct ancestors only -- it gets the spouse details the way I want, and doesn't cause problems with the early ancestors who spelled their surnames differently.

Thanks again,

James P. Colgate
Sharon, CT

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