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From: "Frank van Thienen" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] What Book Manager reports would you suggest
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:20:18 -0800
In-Reply-To: <E1AQi3L-0006dp-00@pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald W. Range [mailto:]
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 Frank van Thienen wrote:
>
> >I don't see anybody jumping on this one. Nobody thinking about
> >publishing?
> >I am quite happy with the books I printed earlier this year, they
> >started with showing pedigree box charts (VCF), then the ancestors
> >journal narrative including siblings, followed by one or
> more descendant
> >journal narratives, depending on how many interesting lines
> there are.
> >So basically two journal narratives.
> >The box charts had to be split, because I wanted to show them on the
> >fixed pages in the book, rather than a single folded sheet.
> >I had several books and my decisions depended partly on what I had to
> >offer, and partly on who my audience was.
>
> Frank, did your ancestor narrative have overlapping people with your
> descendent narratives? If so, how did you decide to handle the
> report-assigned numbering of the people who are common to two or more
> reports?
>
> Don Range

Certainly the "main line" in the descendant narratives is also present
in the pedigree. The two reports each have their own numbering system,
which I didn't dare tinker with. I doubt if you could pull off carrying
the numbering from one report to the next, and still have it make sense.

Frank van Thienen
Vernon, BC Canada



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