What I plan to do in my ancestor books is export to .rtf file in a word processor, then make a separate "book" of two generations for the spouse and cut and paste into the original. That way it will be in the same format as the main book. Amazing what we have to do just because our minds don't work the same way Bruce's does, isn't it?

Another genealogy program includes spouse notes and list of children for the starting person of the Ahnentafel report (ancestors by generation) but I don't use it because several direct ancestors were raised in blended households. The step-siblings and step-parents are often very important people in the family stories. Marriage certificate (second marriage, wife Margaret) for George age 77 turned out to have the names of his parents and identified a mysterious woman in the 1881 census who was not mentioned in the family history collected since 1967. FO 10 Journal can include multiple reports and charts. That is easier than editing RTF files for a database that changes frequently. My FO 10 Journal didn't get far because it started with a GEDCOM and had mixed sizes of source documents in the scrapbooks. If a book report is planned to start frequently with the same person, I like to include information about their other relatives in the individual notes. Gladys T., a distant cousin, lived with the family in (place) while taking her hairdressing course. She was introduced to her future husband by a mutual cousin and became a best friend of Flo (youngest daughter.) Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > What I plan to do in my ancestor books is export to .rtf file in a word > processor, then make a separate "book" of two generations for the spouse and > cut and paste into the original. That way it will be in the same format as > the main book.