Filters for reports

[triovlaif 0]

Today I tried to filter my database so that I could have a list of all male descendants of a particular man who also have his surname. I filtered for:

 

Is a descendant of William Hendrix and

Sex = Male and

Surname = Hendrix

or

Surname = Hendricks

 

The report I generated included all the female descendants as well.

 

Why is that? I suspect that the Sex tag isn't working. How are inidividuals identified for gender? Is there another tag I should be using for this filter? Does the order of the filters matter?

 

Thank you.

Dick Norwood

TMG v.7

[Terry Reigel 0]

There are a couple of possible reasons.

 

What type of report are you using? If it's a descendants chart or narrative, the filter does not restrict who is included. The "Subject(s)" section of the report definition specifies the starting person of the report, and then the report proceeds to list all the descendants of that person.

 

If you use a filterd group you are actually asking for a group of reports, one report starting with each of the people who the filter describes.

 

The Box charts let you specify a flag setting which can control who is included as you have in mind.

 

You can get only specified people in a narrative report or an indented descendants chart by making a temporary data set that excluded those you want to omit, and then make your report from that.

 

If you are using a List of People report the issue may be the filter you specified - at least as you show it above there is no grouping of terms. So it is specifying male descendants of William Henrix who have the surname Hendrix, and also anyone (male or not, descendant or not) with surname Hendricks. To group them as you intend you need something like:

 

Is a descendant of William Hendrix and

Sex = Male and

(Surname = Hendrix or

Surname = Hendricks) end

 

If you can be more specific about what type of report you want to use we can provide more detailed suggestions.

[triovlaif 0]

There are a couple of possible reasons.

 

What type of report are you using? If it's a descendants chart or narrative, the filter does not restrict who is included. The "Subject(s)" section of the report definition specifies the starting person of the report, and then the report proceeds to list all the descendants of that person.

 

If you use a filterd group you are actually asking for a group of reports, one report starting with each of the people who the filter describes.

 

The Box charts let you specify a flag setting which can control who is included as you have in mind.

 

You can get only specified people in a narrative report or an indented descendants chart by making a temporary data set that excluded those you want to omit, and then make your report from that.

 

If you are using a List of People report the issue may be the filter you specified - at least as you show it above there is no grouping of terms. So it is specifying male descendants of William Henrix who have the surname Hendrix, and also anyone (male or not, descendant or not) with surname Hendricks. To group them as you intend you need something like:

 

Is a descendant of William Hendrix and

Sex = Male and

(Surname = Hendrix or

Surname = Hendricks) end

 

If you can be more specific about what type of report you want to use we can provide more detailed suggestions.

[triovlaif 0]

Thank you Terry.

 

I see about the filter grouping. I didn't want a box chart, just a list or descendancy report. I wanted to select for only males because I wanted to trace the y-dna through the generations to the present to try to find candidates for DNA testing. I had hoped the program would be able to provide that easily.

 

Best,

 

Dick Norwood

[nbradley 0]

The List of People Report may suit your needs better.

[Jim Byram 0]

I wanted to select for only males because I wanted to trace the y-dna through the generations to the present to try to find candidates for DNA testing. I had hoped the program would be able to provide that easily.

Try TMG Utility.

http://www.johncardinal.com/tmgutil/

 

Functions / People / Set DNA Descendants