Close, but not quite what I'd want. I'd like to pick which events to appear in which order, not let the program arbitrarily pick them. -----Original Message----- From: Otto Jørgensen Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:43 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] Edit Page On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:31:41 -0400, "David Youse" <dhyouse@comcast.net> wrote: >Is there a way to globally change the order of the “Event/Fact” fields >as they appear on the Edit page? I would find it very helpful to be >able to view several pages in succession with all the listings in the >same order, to avoid having to search each page for what I’m looking >for. I have over 11,000 persons so doing this one page at a time is >not a viable option. > look in Helpfil <F1> Globally Sort Events -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON 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 David Youse >From the main screen pick File, Utilities, Global Event Sort That sorts the individual events. There is not a way to globally delete blank events. What type of blank events do you have to delete? Can you give me an example. You can change SSN by making a COPY of the English.BKW file. For example ENGLISH2.EXE Then edit it to change to what you want. Be sure you do NOT add or delete any lines. Then start BK6 and pick Help, Change Language, and pick English2 (The reason to not edit the regular English.bkw file is that I change that with every update, so you do not want my changes to write over your changes.) John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Youse" <dhyouse@comcast.net> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:31 PM Subject: [BK] Edit Page > Is there a way to globally change the order of the “Event/Fact” fields as > they appear on the Edit page? I would find it very helpful to be able to > view several pages in succession with all the listings in the same order, > to avoid having to search each page for what I’m looking for. I have over > 11,000 persons so doing this one page at a time is not a viable option. > > I’d like the option for both the non-family and the family listings. > > I think I may have asked this before, or maybe was just thinking about it, > but – Is there a way to globally delete “Event/Fact”s that have no > entries? That is, the field was selected but there is no Date; no > in,at,etc; no Location/Description; no Note; no Source AND no Witness > entries. > > Also, John, is there a way to change the field name “Social Security num” > to just “SSN”? > > David Youse > 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

In message <F9EDC203D55C4CF99B4FE44426644211@DavidHP>, David Youse <dhyouse@comcast.net> writes: >Is there a way to globally change the order of the “Event/Fact” >fields as they appear on the Edit page? I would find it very helpful >to be able to view several pages in succession with all the listings in >the same order, to avoid having to search each page for what I’m >looking for. I have over 11,000 persons so doing this one page at a >time is not a viable option. I’d like the option for both the non-family and the family listings. Can I ask in the same vein for a revision of the "individual events must precede family events" rule? I find it rather unnatural to have to show born christened died buried married rather than born christened married died buried I think I may have asked this before, or maybe was just thinking about it, but – Is there a way to globally delete “Event/Fact”s that have no entries? That is, the field was selected but there is no Date; no in,at,etc; no Location/Description; no Note; no Source AND no Witness entries. Yes, I'd like that too (-:! Also, John, is there a way to change the field name “Social Security num” to just “SSN”? At a guess, there's a file with it in. I've just had a look, and on my system there's a file english.bkw, where it is on line 2996. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Easy reading is damned hard writing. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

Is there a way to globally change the order of the “Event/Fact” fields as they appear on the Edit page? I would find it very helpful to be able to view several pages in succession with all the listings in the same order, to avoid having to search each page for what I’m looking for. I have over 11,000 persons so doing this one page at a time is not a viable option. I’d like the option for both the non-family and the family listings. I think I may have asked this before, or maybe was just thinking about it, but – Is there a way to globally delete “Event/Fact”s that have no entries? That is, the field was selected but there is no Date; no in,at,etc; no Location/Description; no Note; no Source AND no Witness entries. Also, John, is there a way to change the field name “Social Security num” to just “SSN”? David Youse

John, I recently had this same problem when that file English.R6 was marked as "Hidden" by Windows 7. This was after I had my disk seemingly crash, and I recovered it by finally managing to do a System Restore to a point before the last windows update. After that process got nearly everything back to normal, I still had to go thru the process of going into Properties on the Users folder and marking all files Hidden, and then unchecking that so that NO files would be hidden. That got all my photos and personal documents to be accessible again. However, I have Brother's Keeper under C:\BK6 instead of under C:\Users, so I ran into the same problem as Mona did when I tried to run "Compute Relationship", which I do a lot. The same process fixed it. I hope this is helpful. Bobby Richardson -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 10:43:33 -0400 From: "John Steed" <brothers_keeper@msn.com> Subject: Re: [BK] Error message in computing a relationship To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BA9E77FB57A742A583E6EFF25F8F16FC@Dell4600> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original To Mona HeritageHunt@sandyview.net That file is installed when you install the FULL version of BK6 from the CD or downloaded from my web site. If the file is missing, then it might be because some "clean up" programs that remove "unneeded" files from your computer will delete that file. So if you run a program to clean up your computer and delete unneeded files, tell that program to NOT delete English.R6 John Steed www.bkwin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mona" <HeritageHunt@sandyview.net> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 10:22 PM Subject: [BK] Error message in computing a relationship Running BK 6.5.7, registered version. Tried to compute a relationship, but got the error message: "Cannot find relationship file called ENGLISH.R6" What can I do to fix it? Thanks Mona -- Mona Houser HeritageHunt@Sandyview.net Our Family -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monajo/ My Database ? http://wc.rootsweb.com/~monahouser Buffalo County NEGenWeb --www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search -------------------------------

To Mona HeritageHunt@sandyview.net That file is installed when you install the FULL version of BK6 from the CD or downloaded from my web site. If the file is missing, then it might be because some "clean up" programs that remove "unneeded" files from your computer will delete that file. So if you run a program to clean up your computer and delete unneeded files, tell that program to NOT delete English.R6 John Steed www.bkwin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mona" <HeritageHunt@sandyview.net> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 10:22 PM Subject: [BK] Error message in computing a relationship Running BK 6.5.7, registered version. Tried to compute a relationship, but got the error message: "Cannot find relationship file called ENGLISH.R6" What can I do to fix it? Thanks Mona -- Mona Houser HeritageHunt@Sandyview.net Our Family -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monajo/ My Database – http://wc.rootsweb.com/~monahouser Buffalo County NEGenWeb --www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/ 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

On Mon, 07 May 2012 21:22:11 -0500, Mona <HeritageHunt@sandyview.net> wrote: >Running BK 6.5.7, registered version. Tried to compute a relationship, >but got the error message: >"Cannot find relationship file called ENGLISH.R6" > >What can I do to fix it? Thanks download the complete and last version and install it over your present version -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Running BK 6.5.7, registered version. Tried to compute a relationship, but got the error message: "Cannot find relationship file called ENGLISH.R6" What can I do to fix it? Thanks Mona -- Mona Houser HeritageHunt@Sandyview.net Our Family -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monajo/ My Database – http://wc.rootsweb.com/~monahouser Buffalo County NEGenWeb --www.rootsweb.com/~nebuffal/

To Michael palekaiko@gmail.com The descendant reports always print the spouses and all the children. Can you explain what you want it to do that it is not doing currently? Do you want just 2 generations? (One person with spouses and children but no more generations) Do you want the children listed with the spouses? Are you doing a Descendant report, or Tree chart, or Register Book, or Indented Book report? John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Palekaiko" <palekaiko@gmail.com> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:51 PM Subject: [BK] Printing spouses and children > Ok all you super users. It's time to shine. In a descendants chart, > I would like to print all the wives (or husbands) of one individual > and their children. I've looked everywhere and cannot detect a means > of doing this. Could someone point me in the right direction, please? > > Michael > 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 >

Select the type of Descendant Chart you want, pick the person you want, and before you hit the Start button click on 'Fields To Include" and check the box that says "Show Which Spouse If Multiple Marriages." Set 'Number of Generations" to 1, if you only want to show the person, his/her spouses and their children only. You get: John Doe -first wife's name -second wife's name -third wife's name in top box, then all his children in next line. Children with second wife will have a number 2 in the corner of the box. Children with 3rd spouse will have a number 3 in corner of box, etc. Hope this helps. - Wilberta -----Original Message----- From: Palekaiko <palekaiko@gmail.com> To: bk <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Mon, May 7, 2012 5:56 pm Subject: [BK] Printing spouses and children Ok all you super users. It's time to shine. In a descendants chart, would like to print all the wives (or husbands) of one individual nd their children. I've looked everywhere and cannot detect a means f doing this. Could someone point me in the right direction, please? Michael

Ok all you super users. It's time to shine. In a descendants chart, I would like to print all the wives (or husbands) of one individual and their children. I've looked everywhere and cannot detect a means of doing this. Could someone point me in the right direction, please? Michael

To Bert Maier OK, thank you for the information. I will check it out and I should be able to fix the problem in the program. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: Bert Maier To: John Steed ; bk@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 3:22 AM Subject: Type of parents Hello John, I just encountered a small glitch in BK6: I had an adopted child connected to its foster parents and marked both parents as "adopted" (Menu Find - Show parent type). No second set of parents. Then I disconnected the child from its parents and deleted all specific information for the child, in order to reuse the entry. However, even though the entry now did not have parents anymore, the parents-button was still italic and I was unable to remove the "adopted" information. I had to connect the individual to some temporary parents, then I was able to put the "type of parent" back to natural, then I could disconnect the child again. It seems that the type of parents sticks with the individual even if it was disconnected from the parents. Thanks for your program and good service to us. Bert from Germany

On Mon, 7 May 2012 08:22:48 +0100 (BST), Bert Maier <pumuckl7777@yahoo.de> wrote: >Hello John, >I just encountered a small glitch in BK6: >I had an adopted child connected to its foster parents and >marked both parents as "adopted" (Menu Find - Show parent type). >No second set of parents. >Then I disconnected the child from its parents and deleted all >specific information for the child, in order to reuse the entry. >However, even though the entry now did not have parents >anymore, the parents-button was still italic and I was unable to >remove the "adopted" information. >I had to connect the individual to some temporary parents, then I >was able to put the "type of parent" back to natural, then I could >disconnect the child again. >  >It seems that the type of parents sticks with the individual even if >it was disconnected from the parents. >  >Thanks for your program and good service to us. The child is connected to two different couple of parents. You must set both the couple to be the correct type of parents. -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Hello John, I just encountered a small glitch in BK6: I had an adopted child connected to its foster parents and marked both parents as "adopted" (Menu Find - Show parent type). No second set of parents. Then I disconnected the child from its parents and deleted all specific information for the child, in order to reuse the entry. However, even though the entry now did not have parents anymore, the parents-button was still italic and I was unable to remove the "adopted" information. I had to connect the individual to some temporary parents, then I was able to put the "type of parent" back to natural, then I could disconnect the child again.   It seems that the type of parents sticks with the individual even if it was disconnected from the parents.   Thanks for your program and good service to us.   Bert from Germany

Thanks to all who replied, and especially thanks to John, reminding me that I should read the manual as it might have some answers! I usually do, just didn't take the time this time. BK is great software. Love it. Rick Beitler rabone@gmail.com http://chertyrock.blogspot.com Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:21 AM, John Steed wrote: > To Rich Beitler > > When you make a TXT file, it is text only and when you view it with your word processor, set the text font to Courier New. > > You must view it with a font that is fixed spacing in order for the columns to line up. > > If you want to import it into a spreadsheet or database program, then before you make the text file, add field 91 also. Then pick FIle, Create TXT file and it will make a comma separated value file, so you can name it .CSV in stead of TXT > > In the BK manual, see page 51-54 about the custom reports. > > John Steed > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Beitler" <rabone@gmail.com> > To: "Brothers Keeper List" <BK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 2:39 PM > Subject: [BK] Reports in a text editor > > >> Question on using BK generated reports in a text editor. I have been reading for some time about the option of creating a BK report as a txt file, then manipulating it using a text editor. I tried this on a search report I did on finding everyone in my database I have listed as being buried in a certain cemetery. When I opened this txt file, the spacing was now all wrong, as it had been done by hard spaces inside BK. To use this data, it would take a lot of time to remove the spaces and replace with tabs. Opening it inside a spreadsheet application was even worse, as it read each row entry as a single cell entry! >> >> Suggestions on how to proceed from those of you who have in the past worked with BK generated reports inside a text editor. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Rick Beitler >> rabone@gmail.com >> http://chertyrock.blogspot.com >> >> Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. ~Saint Francis of Assisi >> >> 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 >

On Thu, 3 May 2012 14:19:51 -0700, "Phil Stevens" <bstevens27@frontier.com> wrote: > Hello guys , I need to have two copies of my" genie " program running at >same time > so i can drag an drop info between them , Some time ago I did just that , >but can`t make it work today , " Got Help ? , Phil > Why not use "Compare two databases". You find it under File / Utilities If you have updated version of BK -- Otto Jørgensen http://www.bkwin.info/ All email is checked by NORTON

Hi Guys , Phil here , I got it working !!! , after my midmorning nap I remembered I had two copies of Brothers`keeper loaded , Now moving the 600 people my brother has on his A.com tree that I am missing , Thanks for the help , Me ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Stevens" <bstevens27@frontier.com> To: "BK@rootsweb.com" <bk@rootsweb.com> Cc: <roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Help needed with program > Hello guys , I need to have two copies of my" genie " program running at > same time > so i can drag an drop info between them , Some time ago I did just that , > but can`t make it work today , " Got Help ? , Phil > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to > roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Hello guys , I need to have two copies of my" genie " program running at same time so i can drag an drop info between them , Some time ago I did just that , but can`t make it work today , " Got Help ? , Phil

Hi Rick, If the "delete unused locations" process does not work to remove your "Saint" entry, use the "Change Location Globally" process. When you select this you can choose the location that just says "Saint" and change it to something that is not likely to be in your database perhaps XXSaintXX or whatever you can easily identify as being the problem location. Now do a location search under find using the changed location name and you should have no problems identifying it from all the other "Saint ?" entries you have. Once you are sure you have found and corrected all instances of this rogue entry, rerun the "Delete unused Locations" process and the altered entry name should be removed from your database. Hope this helps Bye Karlena -----Original Message----- From: Rick Beitler Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:38 AM To: Brothers Keeper List Subject: [BK] Locations report issue Okay, so I thought that I knew my way around BK, but I find that something has stumped me. I printed my "Locations" report, and in that I find I have a location of "Saint." That is all, just "Saint." Now, having a major line that is of Catholic faith, you can imagine that I have many locations that have the word Saint in it. So I wanted to find this lone Saint reference, and correct it. I tried several things, including a word search report using the Person by field tab, and then just the Any field tab, making List to Edit reports. Well over 200 individuals popped up. And after double clicking all those names, I could not find just a "Saint" location! So I am very open to suggestions on how I can find this lone renegade Saint location so that I can review it and correct it as necessary. Rick Beitler rabone@gmail.com http://chertyrock.blogspot.com Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. ~Saint Francis of Assisi 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 Rich Beitler When you make a TXT file, it is text only and when you view it with your word processor, set the text font to Courier New. You must view it with a font that is fixed spacing in order for the columns to line up. If you want to import it into a spreadsheet or database program, then before you make the text file, add field 91 also. Then pick FIle, Create TXT file and it will make a comma separated value file, so you can name it .CSV in stead of TXT In the BK manual, see page 51-54 about the custom reports. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Beitler" <rabone@gmail.com> To: "Brothers Keeper List" <BK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 2:39 PM Subject: [BK] Reports in a text editor > Question on using BK generated reports in a text editor. I have been > reading for some time about the option of creating a BK report as a txt > file, then manipulating it using a text editor. I tried this on a search > report I did on finding everyone in my database I have listed as being > buried in a certain cemetery. When I opened this txt file, the spacing was > now all wrong, as it had been done by hard spaces inside BK. To use this > data, it would take a lot of time to remove the spaces and replace with > tabs. Opening it inside a spreadsheet application was even worse, as it > read each row entry as a single cell entry! > > Suggestions on how to proceed from those of you who have in the past > worked with BK generated reports inside a text editor. > > Thanks. > > > Rick Beitler > rabone@gmail.com > http://chertyrock.blogspot.com > > Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. ~Saint > Francis of Assisi > > 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 >