Are these similar to what you are looking for? They create family groups and links to all others in the database. "Our Family Book" http://www.hesmer.name/ofb/index_e.html GED2HTML - http://www.eugene-stark.com/ged2html/ Dynamic Family Tree - http://www.dftcom2.co.uk/webx/index.html At 09:07 AM 3/10/2010, you wrote: >From: Alexander Bisset <A-Bisset@aberdeen-harbour.co.uk> >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software >To: "aberdeen@rootsweb.com" <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> > >However the original poster DID NOT ASK for something that can take >anyone you choose and produce a descendant tree, almost all FT >programs can do that. What he asked was a program that searched ALL >of your most distant ancestors and produced a report for the lot of >them in one go. That is radically different from MANUALLY searching >for the top of each tree and MANUALLY clicking to produce a >descendant report for each line. > >Sadly I know of no such program. Most programs work on the basis of >producing ancestor or descendant reports based off a starting >individual. I've not seen one that automatically trawls your >database and gets the most distant ancestors from each branch. > >I have however got a "treetops" report on my list of things to add >to my FT Analysis program I'm writing. This little program takes a >Gedcom 5.0 or 5.5 file and produces various reports. At present they >are lists of "loose deaths" (people who you know death information >for but their death entry hasn't got that data explicitly recorded), >lists of locations sorted by country, region(county/state), parish >etc. Lists of people at those locations. Lists of people who >according to your Gedcom may have been alive at a specific date but >for whom you have no census info. This is particularly useful for >remembering to add people to http://www.lostcousins.com etc. > >A "treetops" report is on my to do list this is a list of all the >people who are direct ancestors at the top of your tree. Effectively >a treetops report would list all of your most distant direct >ancestors you have found for every branch of your tree. This would >not do what the original poster asked but it might at least make the >process of producing the manual reports somewhat easier as you'd >have a list of who to start your reports from. > >-- >Alexander Bisset >IT Administrator Aberdeen Harbour Board ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/c?cp=bhCBLy9RsaapTVTW8DohSQAAJ1HRPJtV0UPWIFV2n9W87NGdAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAAAA=