Sorry Robert, You appear to have confused the Ancestor Report.
Both the Descendant Book and the Descendant Narrative Book give you a report on a Specific Person's Descendants (although it may name their parents, the parents/ancestor notes are not included)
The difference is in the ORDER in which the Descendants are named and some of the wording.
The Descendant Narrative report reports a child of the starting person and then their children and grandchildren etc for as many generations you've chosen and then comes back to the next child of the starting person. The individuals can be given Henry Numbers.
The Descendant Book report reports all the Descendants in Generations rather than Families. The starting person is listed and their children named. The next "chapter" reports each of these children with their notes, events and a list of their children. The next "chapter" reports each of the grandchildren of the originating person with their notes, events and a list of their children. etc Thus all first cousins will appear together. All people are numbered (those without issue may not be depending on whether you have chosen a Register or Modified Register) but consecutively as encountered from the starting person rather than using one of the Genealogical Numbering systems.
People differ on which they find easiest to follow. The Descendant Narrative Format is best if you are wanting to see each person with their descendants together. However the children are never listed together with their details - just a sentence naming them. (I have problems with the sentence as it states how many children the couple had whereas I may not have entered all the children either because I don't know of them or because only a couple are of interest to me.) The Descendant Book is better if you want to see the originating family with their details all together - especially if one of the older children have many many descendants so the next child of the originating couple may be pages away.
Hope that's not too confusing, Cathy At 08:36 2/08/2005, you wrote:
I will try. Usually a Descendent BOOK report is more book style, and begins with a specific person the user picks (Not necessarily the farthest back person), and will go forward for as many generations as the user selects. Whereas, a Descendant NARRATIVE report is also a book-style report, as it also talks about your ancestors in narrative format; BUT IT ALSO gives each person a number. Some people find this number extremely useful and helpful when reading about your ancestors. Does this help? If not, let us know and we will try again. Robert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patricia Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Descendant and Descendant Narrative Reports Please, can someone explain to me the difference between the Descendant Report and the Descendant Narrative Report. I've generated both and can't see a difference. Nor is there a difference in the explanation of what each does in the Help. Regards Patricia Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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