Larry Wilson wrote:
Is there a way in Legacy or third party to print a list of all (only) living
decedents of a person, listing the oldest first and then continuing on down
from there?
Example:
George Smith born 12 December 1922
Frank Jones born 12 April 1926
Mary Maxine Black Born March 12, 1943
Etc
Etc
Etc
Date could be in any format 12-12-1922 or Dec 12, 1922
Thank You, Larry
PS: Need for a family reunion
I've written to the group asking for something similar to this several
times over the years ... it seems like a report that could be done by
the Legacy programmers in an afternoon and one that would be EXTREMELY
useful ... not just for Larry's purpose, but for many others.
I'm working with Dennis Kowallek to see if he can add this to his L
Tools program ... I've cut and pasted part of a memo to him below. If
Dennis can get this done, all Larry would have to do is tag the people
he wants in the report.
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I certainly could get something done via the Name List and csv and
excel, etc ... but I think it'd take 15-20 steps with all the
possibilities for error,etc ... and all those steps would have to be
repeated each time for a new report. I'd prefer to have an application
where I click a button, enter 'all' or a tab # for selection, with
buttons for B, M, D, and a date range ... and out it comes. That's the
beauty of a programmed application ... the work is done once.
One problem with the Name List is that it just produces 'raw dates' ...
i.e., no 'fixing up' for bef, aft, abt, etc ... so these all sort
together. I want them to sort where they make sense and are useful for
research.
Let's say this ... bef 1900 goes in date-sort-field as 1900-00-00
aft 1900 goes in date-sort-field as 1900-12-99
abt 1900 goes in date-sort-field as 1900-06-99
(this puts it in the middle of that year)
etc, etc ...
I've asked Legacy for this several times ... I think it'd be enormously
useful for research and for interesting others in the family history ...
for instance, a list showing births, marriages, deaths for all my
cousins ... or as I said for research possibilities ... "Aunt Mabel, I
see that you gave birth to Jimmy just two days before Grandpa Fred
died. Were you able to go to the funeral?" Or a list of all family
events since the last reunion. Seems like a Legacy programmer could
produce this in an afternoon with their access to already written
routines ... but I do understand that they have their priorities.
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Anybody else see possible uses for this?
Regards,
Bob Bashfor
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