What I sometimes do for known dead ends is to enter a dummy child called "No Children", or a dummy spouse called "Unmarried". However, I more often merely attach a message to that effect to the person, though that doesn't rint out in the normal descendant chart. (I am still using BK5g, by the way). At 04:36 AM 9/15/2012, Otto Jørgensen wrote: >An other idea that would be nice to have is a way to tell that this is >"dead end" >we search for descendent and some time we find them and sometimes not. > >But sometimes we have the information and in Edit put the information >"No children from that couple" That is an excast information, that I >wish to be marked also in the chart, with a "dot", a "updown line" or >something that identify the end of the line. >-- >Otto Jørgensen

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:38:30 -0400, "Carole Edwards Caruso" <carolec@stny.rr.com> wrote: >The Descendant Tree Chart will show the baptized date if the >birth date is not known. However, it does not show the death >year if only the burial is shown. > >Am I the only one who has a problem with this? I see you point and it is a good advice to also include to have the date of bapt, burried as a good point. Also not only to use abbr. and symbole but alson to use born, bapt. married etc if some want that -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

To Carole Caruso I will try to add the burial date to the tree chart. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Edwards Caruso" <carolec@stny.rr.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:38 PM Subject: [BK] Dates in Descendant Tree Chart > The Descendant Tree Chart will show the baptized date if the > birth date is not known. However, it does not show the death > year if only the burial is shown. > > Am I the only one who has a problem with this? > > Carole > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Fran, Unfortunately the death year is not always the burial year. It can be several years before a person is buried. For instance, a person may be cremated and buried a decade later. Some soldiers are not buried for many years after their death. Regards, Curt On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Fran LaChance <singer.35@hotmail.com> wrote: > If you know the burial date, you therefore know the death year. Insert the death year, or > you could also use: i.e. burial date 19 Sep 2012, death date abt 18 Sept 2012. > > Fran L > > The Future is as Great as the Promises of God > On 14/09/2012 1:38 PM, Carole Edwards Caruso wrote: >> The Descendant Tree Chart will show the baptized date if the >> birth date is not known. However, it does not show the death >> year if only the burial is shown. >> >> Am I the only one who has a problem with this? >> >> Carole >> >> Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If you know the burial date, you therefore know the death year. Insert the death year, or you could also use: i.e. burial date 19 Sep 2012, death date abt 18 Sept 2012. Fran L The Future is as Great as the Promises of God On 14/09/2012 1:38 PM, Carole Edwards Caruso wrote: > The Descendant Tree Chart will show the baptized date if the > birth date is not known. However, it does not show the death > year if only the burial is shown. > > Am I the only one who has a problem with this? > > Carole > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

The Descendant Tree Chart will show the baptized date if the birth date is not known. However, it does not show the death year if only the burial is shown. Am I the only one who has a problem with this? Carole

John; If you need anyone else, I can give it a try. I have a very large database. Fran L The Future is as Great as the Promises of God On 08/09/2012 8:11 PM, John Steed wrote: > To BK users > > I have a new Utility to look for duplicates in your database and show them > side by side. > It will let you move data and delete the duplicate person. > > I would like a few people to try it out and give some feedback before I > release it to everyone. > > If you would like to try it out and give me some feedback about it, you can > send me a PRIVATE email with your registration number and I will tell you > how to get the new utility. > > If you email me from the main screen of the BK program with Help, Technical > Support, Email it should include your reg number in the email automatically. > > Thanks > > John Steed >

Hi John. That sounds like an interesting utility, I would like to assist in checking it but I am moving house in less than two weeks so I would not have time during the next month to do anything with it. Bye Karlena -----Original Message----- From: John Steed Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:11 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] Utility to find duplicates in your database To BK users I have a new Utility to look for duplicates in your database and show them side by side. It will let you move data and delete the duplicate person. I would like a few people to try it out and give some feedback before I release it to everyone. If you would like to try it out and give me some feedback about it, you can send me a PRIVATE email with your registration number and I will tell you how to get the new utility. If you email me from the main screen of the BK program with Help, Technical Support, Email it should include your reg number in the email automatically. Thanks John Steed Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello John, With 47,000 people in my database, it may be a good one to test your new Utility on. Regards, Ray Schmidt 27974 24563 On 9/09/2012 10:11 AM, John Steed wrote: > To BK users > > I have a new Utility to look for duplicates in your database and show them > side by side. > It will let you move data and delete the duplicate person. > > I would like a few people to try it out and give some feedback before I > release it to everyone. > > If you would like to try it out and give me some feedback about it, you can > send me a PRIVATE email with your registration number and I will tell you > how to get the new utility. > > If you email me from the main screen of the BK program with Help, Technical > Support, Email it should include your reg number in the email automatically. > > Thanks > > John Steed > > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

To BK users I have a new Utility to look for duplicates in your database and show them side by side. It will let you move data and delete the duplicate person. I would like a few people to try it out and give some feedback before I release it to everyone. If you would like to try it out and give me some feedback about it, you can send me a PRIVATE email with your registration number and I will tell you how to get the new utility. If you email me from the main screen of the BK program with Help, Technical Support, Email it should include your reg number in the email automatically. Thanks John Steed

On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:36:40 -0400, Gilles Paquette <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: >Thanks John. And thanks Otto. > >I was not aware thar all these buttons could be used together to perform >many "operations" on a database. > >Another good feature to remember. BK has a lot of facilities, much more than one can think is there. So it is an Idea to read the manual, use the halpefile and try. If one also have backup of the database, nearly no problem is there. One should test the facilites and use all buttons and otpion. Even that I still miss a lot, BK is a very good program from John. -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Thanks John. And thanks Otto. I was not aware thar all these buttons could be used together to perform many "operations" on a database. Another good feature to remember. Gilles Le 2012-09-06 02:32, Otto Jørgensen a ecrit : > As far as I have noticed there is none. > > But I believe most do areasonale selection. You both use add ny > branches and single persons and you can aoslo use unselect and a mix > of them.

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:12:34 -0400, Gilles Paquette <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: > One additional question: how many times can this procedure of selecting > descendants be used in the same "session"? I've done it four times > (ancestors of my grand-parents), but is there a limit? As far as I have noticed there is none. But I believe most do areasonale selection. You both use add ny branches and single persons and you can aoslo use unselect and a mix of them. -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Dear Gilles, It is not clear for me what is your purpose to make a separate gedcom. In my databare maybe 50 or 60 family-trees. I make only a gedcom of a part of my database if I send this to an other person. If you want to make an separate database on your own computer of a part, is my question why. At the moment that you make separate family-trees in divers BK-files you make it more complicate for yourself if you have additions. I advise always make one database of all your genealogy-information. My database contains more than 80.000 people. With my best regards, Max van Dam Rechovot Israel http://www.maxvandam.info/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Gilles Paquette To: BK - RootsWeb Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:02 PM Subject: [BK] Adding branches to a Gedcom file Hi, I think this has been discussed sometime ago, but I can't find the original thread. Is it possible to add two branches to a Gedcom file? For example, I want to extract my personnal data starting at both my father's farthest ancestor AND my mother's farthest ancestor. And what would it be easier, to extract to a Gedcom file or to extract to a new database? Thank you for your help. Gilles Paquette Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

One additional question: how many times can this procedure of selecting descendants be used in the same "session"? I've done it four times (ancestors of my grand-parents), but is there a limit? Gilles Le 2012-09-05 19:06, John Steed a ecrit : To Gilles On both the Split database and the Gedcom export, you can select multiple groups at the same time. Go to one of those and on the select person pick Descendants of your father's ancestor. Then click the same button again and pick Descenants of your mother's ancestor Each time you select more people, then number of selected people will increase. It will not duplicate people (if you select yourself two or three times, it will still copy you only one time) Then after you have selected everyone you want, THEN click Copy. John Steed

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:02:02 -0400, Gilles Paquette <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: >Hi, > >I think this has been discussed sometime ago, but I can't find the >original thread. > >Is it possible to add two branches to a Gedcom file? For example, I >want to extract my personnal data starting at both my father's farthest >ancestor AND my mother's farthest ancestor. > >And what would it be easier, to extract to a Gedcom file or to extract >to a new database? > dependin bg the situationm If the person that should receive the data has BK, I make a split of the branches that is requested If the person does not have BK I meke a gedcom. My database is only one with all entered person. I I shall send someone something BK is able to include branches of the person in question. The routine are the same, only the end result is different, Gedcomfile or databasefiles. -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Thanks John, I knew there was a trick and I should have guessed you would be the one to answer. Thanks all for your input. Gilles Le 2012-09-05 19:06, John Steed a ecrit : > To Gilles > > On both the Split database and the Gedcom export, you can select > multiple groups at the same time. > > Go to one of those and on the select person pick Descendants of your > father's ancestor. > > Then click the same button again and pick Descenants of your mother's > ancestor > > Each time you select more people, then number of selected people will > increase. > > It will not duplicate people (if you select yourself two or three > times, it will still copy you only one time) > > Then after you have selected everyone you want, THEN click Copy. > > John Steed

I need to know this, too, please. I have been meaning to ask it myself. Thanks Margaret from Australia -----Original Message----- From: Bert Maier Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:28 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] How to document same-sex relations in BK? Hello John and list, I am using BK not only to track my ancestors, but also to maintain the data of all descendants of a 5x great-grandfather of mine. We regularly meet in family reunions and keep track of all the news of the descendants' families. This also brings a lot of modern forms of partnerships, that I do not know how to add to my BK data. How do you treat same-sex relationships of couples living together? In some countries/states it is possible to register these relationships (similar to a marriage). How do you add (adopted) children of such same-sex couples? Is there any way to enter this in BK? So far the program requires that partners must have opposite sex, I think. Looking forward to your feedback. Thank you. Bert from Germany

To Gilles On both the Split database and the Gedcom export, you can select multiple groups at the same time. Go to one of those and on the select person pick Descendants of your father's ancestor. Then click the same button again and pick Descenants of your mother's ancestor Each time you select more people, then number of selected people will increase. It will not duplicate people (if you select yourself two or three times, it will still copy you only one time) Then after you have selected everyone you want, THEN click Copy. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilles Paquette" <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [BK] Adding branches to a Gedcom file > What I want is to have the descent of the furthest ancestor on my > father's side with the furthest ancestor on my mother's side in one file > including all related persons. In other words, I want my ascendance > with all the brothers and sisters of my ancestors with their own > children. This way, I could exclude all persons in my database that are > not really linked to me. > > Would it be easier to extract the data to a new subfolder rather than > going through a gedcom file? > > Gilles > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

Try the flag utility Sent from my iPod On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Gilles Paquette <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: > What I want is to have the descent of the furthest ancestor on my > father's side with the furthest ancestor on my mother's side in one file > including all related persons. In other words, I want my ascendance > with all the brothers and sisters of my ancestors with their own > children. This way, I could exclude all persons in my database that are > not really linked to me. > > Would it be easier to extract the data to a new subfolder rather than > going through a gedcom file? > > Gilles > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message