Hi Jerry, I found the List of People in the reports. That is almost perfect for what I want. I would like to have the year of birth with the person, but I can get it in the index so it is available - just a little flipping back and forth between the list and the index. My list is 40 pages plus index of 5 pages. This is for the group I set up. Easier to go get those marriage records since I have the name of the spouse, the children and the parents all together. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Bryan via Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 9:26 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Reports Lists Your question about citing the previous source has already been answered. Do a memorize and paste. RM does not have a list of recently used sources. The closest you can come is that you can mark sources as favorites to put them at the top of the list. It's a manual process, but you can mark your most recent sources as favorites. Not all reports are available for groups because not all would make sense. For example, a descendant report lists all descendants and pays no attention to groups. But all custom reports can work off of groups. One tricky thing about custom reports is that the formatting of the report and the selection of the people are totally separate. So if you get a report formatted exactly right, you would still have to select the people every time you run the report. For that reason, it's usually best to have a group to make the selection of the people easier. Here is what I mean by "formatting". Suppose you want a birth report that shows name, birth date, and birth place. You would format a custom report that has those three columns - name, birth date, and birth place. You then might make a group for people born after 1950 and another group for people born between 1900 and 1950. You could run the same custom report with those three columns either for the first group or for the second group. But the selection of the group is not a part of the definition of the report. The definition of the report is just the columns that are in the report. Jerry This is great. Thanks Jerry. I think I will set up a group because I will be researching this group intensely in the next few months. Am I correct that all of the reports are available for the groups? I can see where a custom report will work also. Next question - I have been entering information from marriage records. There are several pieces of information on one record. Is there a way to site the previous source or is it necessary to enter the marriage vol. and pg. number each time. I have used TMG for many years; I continue to touch F3 that will give you the last 15 items for that field. Is there such a repeat button in RM? Still using TMG for my own genealogy. I was not able to import a FTM2014 database into TMG, but it imported into RM perfectly. =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My error, Jerry, That is the Individual List. I am trying to learn the vocabulary of Roots Magic but I still get it wrong sometimes. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nancy wright via Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 10:11 AM To: 'Jerry Bryan'; rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Reports Lists Hi Jerry, I found the List of People in the reports. That is almost perfect for what I want. I would like to have the year of birth with the person, but I can get it in the index so it is available - just a little flipping back and forth between the list and the index. My list is 40 pages plus index of 5 pages. This is for the group I set up. Easier to go get those marriage records since I have the name of the spouse, the children and the parents all together. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Bryan via Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 9:26 AM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Reports Lists Your question about citing the previous source has already been answered. Do a memorize and paste. RM does not have a list of recently used sources. The closest you can come is that you can mark sources as favorites to put them at the top of the list. It's a manual process, but you can mark your most recent sources as favorites. Not all reports are available for groups because not all would make sense. For example, a descendant report lists all descendants and pays no attention to groups. But all custom reports can work off of groups. One tricky thing about custom reports is that the formatting of the report and the selection of the people are totally separate. So if you get a report formatted exactly right, you would still have to select the people every time you run the report. For that reason, it's usually best to have a group to make the selection of the people easier. Here is what I mean by "formatting". Suppose you want a birth report that shows name, birth date, and birth place. You would format a custom report that has those three columns - name, birth date, and birth place. You then might make a group for people born after 1950 and another group for people born between 1900 and 1950. You could run the same custom report with those three columns either for the first group or for the second group. But the selection of the group is not a part of the definition of the report. The definition of the report is just the columns that are in the report. Jerry This is great. Thanks Jerry. I think I will set up a group because I will be researching this group intensely in the next few months. Am I correct that all of the reports are available for the groups? I can see where a custom report will work also. Next question - I have been entering information from marriage records. There are several pieces of information on one record. Is there a way to site the previous source or is it necessary to enter the marriage vol. and pg. number each time. I have used TMG for many years; I continue to touch F3 that will give you the last 15 items for that field. Is there such a repeat button in RM? Still using TMG for my own genealogy. I was not able to import a FTM2014 database into TMG, but it imported into RM perfectly. =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message