Since we're doing the annual wish list, I'll add mine again (maybe it will be a bit higher on the list this year.) Following ancestral lines in the pedigree is easy, you just click on the right arrows until you get to the end of the chosen line. Following the path back down, however, is a bit more complex since there can be multiple lines from a given ancestor. Right now, the only way to know that there is more than one line is to right click and look at the 'View relatives' option at each step - a very cumbersome method. Rather than showing just one child in the leftmost position of the pedigree, I would like for the on-screen pedigree chart to show a listing of all of the children and I would like for the program to indicate which of the children are the lineal ancestors of the root person and to display a code to identify whether it's the paternal or maternal line of the root person. In other words, if there are 12 children and you (the root person) are a descendant of two of them, all 12 should be listed (maybe a scroll box?), the lineal ancestors should have arrows like the leftmost person in the pedigree and they should be blue or pink to indicate your paternal or maternal ancestral line. Please? -- Happy Hunting!! -- Paul Houston, TX, USA ICQ #73314929 Researching: VA - WHITE,LIPSCOMB,HILL,JOHNSON,SAUNDERS, TALBOT,TATE,EVANS NC - SMITH, BOSWELL, RHODES, CAPEHART,MORRIS, MARSHE, BRITT,SHAW View my American Ancestry at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paulrsmith **************** FREE Credit Card Referral Program. Quick money AND residual, lifetime income! CHECK IT OUT !! http://smithecomservices.tripod.com ***************************************

That's what I call an "Easter egg" in my pedigree. It isn't linear, it loops out one way to get to me, and also loops out another. I've always wished for something like you are asking for, only in reverse. When I am on the family screen and clicking to go to the parent several times, I wish "C+" was like HTML and would leave me a highlighted trail. I usually can't remember the exact path back to the person on whom I was working before I had to look at some ancestor for some reason. Norma

Bruce, it wasn't mentioned in the features of Ver. 10 on the "other" website or on the formalsoft one, but did you ever incorporate an Undo feature on the Merge window? I know many of us would like to see this feature, since we sometimes get a little too Merge happy when we are doing a great number of merges and once you hit the Merge button you are sunk. -- Janelle Holmes Wildair Kennels Dripping Springs, TX

"Paul Smith" <prsmith@pdq.net> wrote: >Following ancestral lines in the pedigree is easy, you just >click on the right arrows until you get to the end of the >chosen line. Following the path back down, however, is a >bit more complex since there can be multiple lines from a >given ancestor. One convenient and undocumented feature of FO concerning this topic is the fact that when you step backward in the tree view, back to an ancient ancestor, and then you step forward again, FO will ALWAYS follow the same path going forward that you originally took going back to get there and will always return you to the same focus person that you started with. I think FO must mark a "current child" in each family as it steps backward and it chooses that "current child" again when it steps forward to each family. Try it - - - it works! This is most convenient when finding all of one's earliest ancestors in each line. First you step backward along the top of the pedigree tree as far as you can go for the first earliest ancestor. Then you step forward to the next line branch and go back up that line. You continue going backward and forward, each time back up a different line until you have found the beginning of every line! This is the first step in extracting a gedcom file containing only the kin of a particular focus person. (While waiting on Bruce to give us a kinship selection option.) Wayne League