Thanks John; I just realized, after making a 298 page list to preview as you suggested. However, without any dates, the program would never be able to know the missing B-M-Ds between say 1810 - 1824, which is what I was seeking. Just seeing your questions helped me to realize that what I want is not possible. Now I realize I can do a word search for abt & bef & cir and perhaps get a smaller list of BMDs which will give me something to work on & possibly shorten the 'missing date' list. I got a 197 page report for 'abt' but that will be easier to locate the time frames I'm looking for. Thanks for your time John Fran The Future is as Bright as the Promises of God On 18/11/2011 10:31 AM, John Steed wrote: > To Fran LaChance > > Go to Lists, Missing information report > > Pick all or descendants of someone. > > On the next tab pick birthday or death date or whatever > > If a Preview gives you the people you want, then tell me how you want to output the data. > > Do you want a Text file with the list of names? > > Do you want to Split off those names into another BK database? > > Do you want to export those names in a Gedcom file? > > John Steed > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran LaChance" <singer.35@hotmail.com> > To: "BK-L" <BK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:00 PM > Subject: [BK] making lists between dates? > > >> Hi All; >> >> Long time registered BK user BK 6.5.3 = windows 7, 32 bit >> >> Database of 76800 people- the vast majority a 'one name' project. >> >> Is there a way to search missing information i.e: Descendants of ----- between 1800 - >> 1824 - birthdays -- marriage --- death ? >> >> I have a valuable resource where I can search within those dates but get far too many >> hits. I'd like to narrow it down to the people for whom I don't have birthdays - >> marriages- deaths. >> >> I'm not much good with spreadsheets but if that's the only way, then I'll try. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Fran >> >> The Future is as Bright as the Promises of God >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 <BLU0-SMTP151691BB30554A3A0C394B8E3C40@phx.gbl>, Fran LaChance <singer.35@hotmail.com> writes: >Thanks John; > > I just realized, after making a 298 page list to preview as you >suggested. However, >without any dates, the program would never be able to know the missing >B-M-Ds between say >1810 - 1824, which is what I was seeking. Yes, it's often only after you've asked the question that you realise it isn't possible! > >Just seeing your questions helped me to realize that what I want is not >possible. > >Now I realize I can do a word search for abt & bef & cir and perhaps >get a smaller list of >BMDs which will give me something to work on & possibly shorten the >'missing date' list. Where you have one or more of the B-M-D dates (or baptism/christening rather than birth, and burial rather than death), you might be able to narrow in that way, by making some assumptions - to get missing birth dates 1810-1824, you could collect those whose marriages are say 1824-1864, say. Of course, this is very rough, and won't catch those whose marriage date you don't have either or who never married. Similarly, with even less accuracy, working back from deaths cold help. Likewise, seeking marriages could be done by working from births (for marriages 1810-1824 I'd say births 1770-1810) or deaths, and deaths from births and marriages. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf What would be unusual would be if there weren't any coincidences at all for several days in a row. Andy Roberts (UMRAt), 23rd. October 1998.