Recently Richard told me how to print custom reports based on relationship and name. It works sometimes but not others-very confusing. I wanted a list of all ancestors of my sister whose given name was Marguerite-works fine. Then I wanted a list of all ancestors of her grandson whose given name was Louis. It prints this out but it gives the wrong relationship of all these ancestors. It gives the relationship to my sister not to the grandson. i.e. it is 2 generations out. I don't know why it gives the wrong relationship as I've cleared everything in the meantime. Any suggestions? John

Hi John, There seems to be a misunderstanding about relationships in PAF. The relationship field is not a dynamic field. It is calculated using an option in the Tools>Preferences menu and remains with that value until the calculation is rerun. When you run the calculation, it calculates the relationship based on a specific individual and stays that way until rerun. When you use the Focus/Filter to select people, the relationship field is not recalculated. If you want to have a report with relationships to the grandson, you will have to run the relationship feature as an independent step. Richard At 07:59 AM 9/20/2005 -0700, john burns wrote: >Recently Richard told me how to print custom reports based on relationship >and name. It works sometimes but not others-very confusing. I wanted a >list of all ancestors of my sister whose given name was Marguerite-works >fine. Then I wanted a list of all ancestors of her grandson whose given >name was Louis. It prints this out but it gives the wrong relationship of >all these ancestors. It gives the relationship to my sister not to the >grandson. i.e. it is 2 generations out. I don't know why it gives the >wrong relationship as I've cleared everything in the meantime. Any suggestions? >John > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >AVG Anti-Virus Users >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab.

Thanks Stewart and Richard. I wouldn't have figured out that I needed to re-generate the relationship but I now have and it works perfectly. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rands" <rrands@cfmc.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Custom reports > Hi John, > There seems to be a misunderstanding about relationships in PAF. The > relationship field is not a dynamic field. It is calculated using an > option in the Tools>Preferences menu and remains with that value until the > calculation is rerun. When you run the calculation, it calculates the > relationship based on a specific individual and stays that way until > rerun. When you use the Focus/Filter to select people, the relationship > field is not recalculated. If you want to have a report with relationships > to the grandson, you will have to run the relationship feature as an > independent step. > > Richard > > > At 07:59 AM 9/20/2005 -0700, john burns wrote: > >Recently Richard told me how to print custom reports based on relationship > >and name. It works sometimes but not others-very confusing. I wanted a > >list of all ancestors of my sister whose given name was Marguerite-works > >fine. Then I wanted a list of all ancestors of her grandson whose given > >name was Louis. It prints this out but it gives the wrong relationship of > >all these ancestors. It gives the relationship to my sister not to the > >grandson. i.e. it is 2 generations out. I don't know why it gives the > >wrong relationship as I've cleared everything in the meantime. Any suggestions? > >John > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > >AVG Anti-Virus Users > >Disable the 'Certify outgoing messages' option via the E-mail Scanner tab. > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > >