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In the narrative report, could there be a way of getting rid of the irritating text '...had the following children with the same father'. Often the father is not recorded because his name is not known. If there's just one child the text is simply spurious. If there's more than one it's misleading......

Thanks for that, hope my version 3 arrives soon.

Thanks, well, yes, that sort of works... I certainly get the birth and death dates for the right husbands in the right boxes, but not in the right format, and it doesn't do what the LifeDates function does in picking up the baptism or burial dates where birth and death dates are missing. What I don'...

Yep, tried that, I just get the dates left blank.

Thanks for that, I was beginning to think I was going barmy

I'm a little confused about the wish list system... how do I know if this is on it? How do I add it?, How do I vote for it?

Thanks, Chris

Hear Hear.

May I put my oar in here too... I frequently cut and paste from other sources into FH, much less error prone than retyping, dates in particular are often mis-interpreted and stored as date phrases. Couldn't the entry of dates be much more tolerant of various punctuation, or th after a number, or wha...

I usually work on my diagrams with Show Duplicates rather than Show Spouses pressed, mainly because it takes up less width to show a family of siblings and their spouses so I'm more likely to be able to see the whole family. When I have multiple spouses, I don't want the persons name and dates more ...

Well, I will (of course) be buying version 3 soon, so if it's fixed in that, don't worry about it. If not, is it on a wish list? I use the narrative report as the main way of sharing information with family members, and have often been complemented on the layout with a few niggly exceptions, this be...

I don't understand the previous answer, but I had the same problem and solved it by copying my Ged file and strategically removing the link between the people you want and the people you don't want (i.e. select individual, Unlink from...) then using the Orphans query do delete one half.

Browsing the forum I came across this and thought, great, now I know what to do with my ancestor with 2 names, but how does it help?... He has 2 names on his All tab, but the other one doesn't appear on the records list, nor on the narrative report, nor on the diagram... have I missed the point?

The problem is Excel not understanding dates before 1900. I've used Excel to manipulate genealogy data and always resorted to 2 columns, one for the year (as a number) and one for the date displayed as day and month (but actually entered as a date in this year). then you can sort the information usi...

In the narrative report, is there any way of getting rid of the irritating text '...had the following children with the same father'. Often the father is not recorded because his name is not known. If there's just one child the text is simply spurious. If there's more than one it's misleading... I h...