jdraganchuk

I have found the problem. I did not re-save my focus group from the previous time when I did it incorrectly. Now I have all the correct people except my mother's parents are somehow included in my father's line. If you include spouses and parents of spouses and you start with the parent whose line you want to isolate, then it seems to me you will get this incorrect result. Maybe I should have started with my paternal grandfather?

The list of people report does not have the correct people in it. It is missing the aunts, uncles and cousins. The focus group is correctly set to the current Focus Group.

I'm sorry if I'm dense, but I have followed every step exactly. The focus group that I end up with has all the correct people in it. Then I go to the list of people report and set the secondary output to make a new project and my new project has no aunts or uncles or cousins in it. They were in the focus group.

Terry, I see now that I have cousins in my focus group. However, the focus group lists 132 individuals, but the new project I created per your instructions has only 27 people in the Project Explorer. How can that be?

I am trying to do something similar to what Elizabeth wanted to do. I followed Terry's instructions and did make a focus group, but it doesn't have any cousins. I want to make a GEDCOM that has my father's entire side of the family, including every relative. How to add cousins?

Thank you so much. The File > Maintenance procedures fixed everything. I appreciate your help.

My ancestor chart does not show all ancestors for some family lines. The missing ancestors are entered in the program with all tags marked as primary. The report is set to print 20 generations and it correctly prints all the ancestors for some lines but not others. I don't know if this is a program glitch (like the big holes I sometimes get in my project explorer) or if I am overlooking a setting.

Got it. Thank you so much for your help.

Thanks. The "contains" tip gave me an Ah-ha moment. It now works, sort of. It produces a report, but with only birth and death events. I have two people married in Lenawee Co. and it lists them with their birth and death dates, even though they were not born there and did not die there. Shouldn't it list their marriage date, since that is the BMD event that occurred in Lenawee Co.?

New user. I thought I understood the basics of how to construct a filter, but attempting a simple one has failed. I have made a filter for List of People to find any BMD event in Lenawee County. My fields are birth group, marriage group, and death group. Each subfield is County. The operator for each line is = and the value is LENAWEE. Each line is separated by OR with END at the end. Seems simple. My result is that no people meet the filter definition. I have lots of BMD events in Lenawee County. What am I doing wrong (this time)?

Got it! Thanks everyone. I had a tag producing no output that was placed before the birth tag. I do read Terry's book and website before I post, but sometimes I am just stumped and need your help. Thanks again.

Thank you for replying. I'm sorry if I'm not getting this, but I'm a new user. My birth tag sentence says [P] was born <[D]> <[L]>. There is no PF or RF in the sentence, but it shows up in reports as: "Michael Bittman. He was born . . ." When I changed the birth tag sentence to [+] was born <[D]> <[L]>, it then read "Michael Bittman [+] was born . . ."

Why do my reports start with the persons name, followed by a period, followed by a sentence starting "He was born" I tried to combine sentences by globally fixing the sentence for the birth tag to [+] was born and now it shows up in reports as the person's name followed by [+] was born.