I'm investigating lifespan as it relates to date and place of birth/death in my ancestor dataset. Is there a way to output a file containing surname, sex, age, birthdate, birthplace; in a row format much like the names list? CSV text files can easily import to a spreadsheet. Can CFT do this? thanks, Mike

Hi Mike, You can get a pretty good representation of your requirements using one of the standard reports. Try the following:- Standard Individual List Fields: Line 1 Type Special: (birth year - death year) Line 2 Type Event: Birth, Event: Place, Tag: None Lines 3 - 5 blank Preview and Save as text file Sex is automatically output. Read in to spreadsheet as text file and parse into columns for Sex, Age, Name, Years and Place. All you need do then is split the birth and death years out of the bracketed expression to calculate the age. Hope this helps. Regards, Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Replyto:[email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 16 March 2001 19:03 Subject: [CFTW] data output > > I'm investigating lifespan as it relates to date and place of birth/death > in my ancestor dataset. > Is there a way to output a file containing surname, sex, age, birthdate, > birthplace; > in a row format much like the names list? CSV text files can easily > import to a spreadsheet. > Can CFT do this?