custom query/ diagram to identify cousins

LittleMissP · Post by **LittleMissP** » 15 Dec 2008 01:19

I still haven't really worked out how to correctly do custom reports, and now whenever I press help it says that Vista doesn't support the help function as something is too old to be supported! Therefore I hope someone here can tell me how to do this.

What I'm trying to do is identify all first cousins of a particular individual. He left a will, and having had no children of his own, seemingly left his money to all his cousins and their children (though nothing to his wife's family- that must be another story). I have identified two thirds of these people and it has led me to figuring out about many marriages and births. However there are still some unidentified recipients and I am suspecting they are children of his first cousins. Therefore I want to get myself a diagram or list of all his cousins and a way to see if I have them as married. Any ideas please gratefully received!

Thanks,
Paula

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 15 Dec 2008 06:58

Help Files: If you are on V3 simply download the latest 3.1.2 update which includes the new format help.

For V2 download the MS Help viewer see [wiki]faq:how_to_install_on_vista[/wiki] for more information.

To identify cousins there are two simple ways, either do a All relations diagram, all the first cousins will be on the row above your root person, or use a query. Example attached.

http://www.fhug.org.uk/queries/files/Re ... ousins.fhq

GladToBeGrey · Post by **GladToBeGrey** » 16 Dec 2008 11:04

As an alternative, try this:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... ries&id=97

which selects 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc cousins based on an input parameter ('Ordinal') and the selected 'Starting Individual'.

John

Family Historian User Group