Duplicate People in List of People Report

[Linda (Babbin) Jones 0]

I'm having an annoying problem and I'd love to know if there's any way to prevent it. I'm creating various reports of people who live in different counties, since I have 2,000 people with the same surname, and it's gotten very difficult to find the person I want just using the picklist (one of the wonderful things about a List of People is that I can display the spouses, which also makes it easier to pick out the person I want).

 

So I create a filtered group and specify the surname and the place name, and then at the bottom of that screen I select the boxes for include spouses, include ancestors (1 generation), and include descendants (250 generations). A lot of the people in the resulting list are duplicated and some are even triplicated (I think I just made up a word). I suspect it's because some people are the parents of more than one child--but after all, that's to be expected. So why doesn't the report program recognize that these are duplicate entries and only show them once? My reports are coming out a lot longer than they need to be, editing by hand would be a huge nuisance, and I don't want to print them like this.

 

Anyone know something I'm not doing that I can do?

 

Thanks,

Linda