> My father uses Family Tree Maker ver. 8, and he is having a > disappointing and puzzling problem. When he does Kinship reports on > 90% or more of his relatives, he'll get a very complete long list > including my father's name in the report (just like it should be). > He has some, just a few descendant that a Kinship report will only > show perhaps 10 names, when the report should be very long. He has > checked his submission of data, and he can not figure why the > reports are not complete. He is 79 and frustrated. He swears there > must be a bug in the program, but I said it's probably some way some > data must have been entered (such as a comma , initially, space, or > other slight difference in a data entry) in a way which makes this > program act screwy when giving a proper complete Kinship report. > Has anyone had this problem, and what was the solution? The poor > guy had a heart attack abt. 3 mo. ago, and this is main > entertainment and hobby. Please help! I may cross post this message > to other groups because he has worked so hard on the genealogy, and > he is very disappointed right now. Thanks -- if you read and > consider this query> > > Sincerely - Randy O <emguy@execpc.com> It probably is something simple, but I love to make those kind of errors myself. I would first look at the area under Family Page > More > Lineage > and see if something other than "natural" parent was checked for the person who has an abbreviated kinship report. there is also a check mark here to "Exclude this relationship from Trees and Kinship" that could be causing the problem. warmest, charles Charles <lmnoNOSPAM@mindspring.com>