Alternative Birth/Marr/Death events

kathren · Post by **kathren** » 16 Mar 2009 21:44

Hi,

I am currently looking at Family Historian with a view to buying it. Currently have FTM with about 3000 individuals, and my (old) version of that cannot cope.
I have many people in my tree with more than one birth/marr/death event, often the duplicate ones do not have dates against them, and I cannot seem to get FH to print them in the individual summary or narrative in the correct order, ie. with the relevant event, it seems to print them randomly at the end. I have tried sorting them in the property dialog, & it looks ok there, but not on the report. Could someone give me an idea of how to solve this?
Thanks, Kathren

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 16 Mar 2009 22:48

I think the reports sort events by date so the lack of date, may be causing them to go to the end.

If you are on the summaries try adding additional lines for the secondary events to the main section.

kathren · Post by **kathren** » 17 Mar 2009 17:14

Sorry, it's not in the summary report that it comes out wrongly, I've managed to get that one looking OK, but on the individual narrative. I can't see why if the program knows it is a death event it doesn't keep it with the other death event (even without a date).
Kathren

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 17 Mar 2009 17:26

I don't think you can order the events on the narrative reports, perhaps you could add an estimated year?

kathren · Post by **kathren** » 21 Mar 2009 16:18

Reading a few of these messages, it is obvious people achieve quite sophisticated things with FH, but I can't see how they come out looking anything like half reasonable, if you cannot order things appearing on the narrative reports. Don't others use these reports to communicate info to others in their tree?
Kathren ( somewhat confused)

ChrisBowyer · Post by **ChrisBowyer** » 21 Mar 2009 16:52

I use narrative reports all the time, but wouldn't want duplicate birth or death events (no one's born twice), nor indeed duplicate (as opposed to multiple) marriages. One event with multiple citations would seem more appropriate.

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 21 Mar 2009 17:34

At the moment, I don't use the narrative reports. If I have to communicate to someone I prefer to go through the timeline and write up the summary myself. It helps me focus on whether the account of a person's life has inconsistencies or not.

In one case I realized that the date a family moved back from the US to England was in my records the whole time -- I simply hadn't paid attention. (A passenger list gave a range of years for 'length of time in the US' on one of the family members on his second entry to the US.)

Since I only had the passenger lists going TO the US at that time, I had no entry for the return trip in the timeline. Writing up the report from scratch prompted me to re-examine the original passenger list and (re-)discover the data I had missed the first time around.

Jan

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