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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] List of Ancestors Using Ahnentafel Number
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:12:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040501140404.036fbf60@pop3.norton.antivirus>


On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:11:23 -0400, Lee Hoffman wrote:
> Roger's Hobbies wrote:
>> 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.

> As Dennis suggested, use the standard Ahnentafel report.
> You can also select the None option under the Options
> button Tags tab of the Report Definition Screen. This
> will give a listing of persons (starting from the focus
> person) back through the number of generations you select
> and their ahnentafel number. It will also have headers
> for generation number, but if you generation the report
> to your word processor you can easily remove these and
> any undesired spacing leaving just a listing of the
> numbers and the name associated with that number.

You said you want BMD dates and places as well. You can get them in
the Ahnentafel report by choosing Selected tag types on the Tags tab
of the report options and specifying those three tag types. By
default, they will be in full narrative style. But you can get them in
a fairly compressed form by creating a custom language (or using
English2), and creating custom sentence structures for these three tag
types -- something like:

B. < [D]> < [L]>

for the birth tag, for example. Then specify that language for the
report, so those sentences are used instead of your normal ones. By
doing that I got the following:


--- 1st Generation ---

1. Howard Wieman Fenker. B. 5 Apr 1883 Covington, Kentucky. M. 1
Nov 1905. D. 17 Sep 1974 Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tennessee.


--- 2nd Generation ---

2. John William Fenker. B. 25 Dec 1856 Covington, Kentucky. M. 26
May 1880 North German Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
D. 7 Nov 1912 4104 Fergus St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

3. Amelia M. Wieman. B. 16 Jun 1861 Cincinnati, Ohio. M. 26 May
1880 North German Lutheran Church, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio. D.
16 Dec 1943 2268 Feldman, Norwood, Hamilton Co., Ohio.


As Lee suggests, you could remove the generation breaks with search
and replace in your word processor if you don't want it. If you are
interested in any of these ideas and need help just ask and we can
provide more details.

Terry Reigel


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