Stewart, Joe, and others who deal with a lot of descendants. If you keep track of descendants the way I do, you will appreciate the GenCharts for PAF program available at www.familyhistoryguide.com. To use this program it is best to have all your data and your spouse's data in one data file. This program will print lists and charts on the descendants of any couple in your data file (there are some limitations on the number of generations that can be printed in some cases. It prints some interesting lists and charts on the ancestors of any one in the data file also. It works only with the English version of PAF 5. It's such a neat add-on program that all PAF users should have a copy. Sorry if this sounds like an advertisement. I guess that's cause in a way it is. Lynn E. Mower LEM Enterprises > > > Hi Joe, > > When you consider the info on "one" family line --- don't necessarily limit > your visualisation of this to an ancestry view (going back in time), but > consider also a descendancy view (coming forward in time). > > Considering my own family (combined single database for me and my wife) - > have a look at my FH web site at www.millarweb.org --- > > And take a look at the "Family History" page --- there you will see that our > family history is presented in two formats - a pedigree view (going back in > time) and a descendancy view for each of our main end-of-line family names. > > The Descendancy reports presented here are generated by PAF for each of the > main family names - currently 14 (7 for me and 7 for my wife's side) - these > are the main means of communicating specific "family name" information with > cousins having connections to the same family-name groups without being > confused with any un-connected individuals/families from our other > ancestral connections (what I think you are trying to achieve). > > This is all generated from the single PAF database. The data on the > Descendancy reports can also be selected in PAF to generate gedcom files for > those relatives that may want the data in a genealogical electronic format.