Interesting idea Geln. On import of the Gedcom I already flag every individual as "Direct", "Blood", "Marriage", "Married to Direct or Blood" (for wives and husbands of directs/bloods but not their families) and "Unknown". So creating a fact listing by date and filtering by relation type would be trivial. If anyone wants to see what I've done so far I've hosted it at http://ftanalyzer.codeplex.com Remember this is NOT a family tree data entry program, instead it takes your existing tree that you export from your existing program as a Gedcom file. It then analyzes that file and produces various reports to assist in what to research. The Census reports - listing who you have still to find on a census, and the Lost Cousins report - who you have found but not yet entered; are the two most useful ones at present. Although the locations report - checking you have been consistent in entering location names (ie: it spotted my Aberdeeenshrie's I'd mistakenly typed) and the "loose death" report - checking if you know data about someone's death but haven't updated their death date to reflect that; are very useful in ensuring that data is consistent and free of simple errors. I'd be really interested to hear any comments, suggestions or problems with the program from anyone that tries it, but please contact me directly or use the programs' website, don't fill up this list with questions or comments that the majority of people won't be interested in. -- Alexander Bisset IT Administrator Aberdeen Harbour Board -----Original Message----- From: Glen Bodie [mailto:glen@glenbodie.com] Sent: 12 March 2010 04:00 To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com; Alexander Bisset Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software One of things that the dBase format easily allowed me to do was to import the whole FT database into Access and run my own reports. No need to write a GEDCOM parser. One of my favourites was a list of all (or selected) events sorted by date. I could look at any day of the year and see that my 5th cousin 2 times removed was married that day (for example). With 45k names in the database I think have every day of the year as a birthday or anniversary of some sort. I never figured out the easiest way to limit the events to only direct ancestors, but that's just a little more fiddling with it if I had the time. I haven't seen that kind of report anywhere, and have not suggested it to the RM4 programmers, but if you were looking for ideas .... <grin>. ______________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked by Dionach for all known viruses using MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.dionach.com