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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] List of Ancestors Using Ahnentafel Number
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 10:27:00 -0700
References: <001c01c42f98$27799370$6401a8c0@Roger>
In-Reply-To: <001c01c42f98$27799370$6401a8c0@Roger>


On or about 09:20 05/01/04 a carrier pigeon from Roger's Hobbies delivered:
>I want to create a report of names based on Ahnentafel numbers and
>starting with me. The report would include date and place of birth,
>marriage, and death. It would give me a quick and easy way to refer to my
>list of surnames.

I'm presuming the existing Ahnentafel report, with only BMDB tags
selected, is not suitable for your uses?

>Is there a way to do this without entering the Ahnentafel number to all my
>ancestors? It would take quite a while to do it individually.

Since Ahnentafel numbers are calculated relative to the focus
individual, you don't want to hard-code them into the data; if you ever
wanted to produce such a report with a different starting person you would
have to recreate/edit the numbers each time you changed focus.

If the need is for something sortable in Excel, say, you may need
to generate the Ahnentafel report to file, and write a VBA script to parse
the fixed (assuming you haven't customized them) sentence outputs... If
places are introduced with "at", you would be looking for keywords: "born"
(for birth record), "at" xxxx, xxx (for place), "on" date... "married
<name> "at" ...... etc.

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