Jerry and Pat, I sent both of you an email with images. Hope it helps. Sue > On May 20, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Jerry Bryan via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> On 5/20/2016 14:55, Pat McGrath wrote: >> I hate to be a further 'pain' since it was my question to begin with ..... >> BUT.... could someone who has made this work send out all the exact steps I >> need to find out what individuals are still missing parents in my >> grandfathers line (back 10 generations) ..... THANKS !!!!!! > > 1. Right click any person in your database and select *QuickGroups* > 2. Click *Manage Groups* at the left bottom of the QuickGroups screen > (steps #1 and #2 are just a quick way to get into Groups) > 3. Click *New *at the top left of the Named Groups screen. You will be > in the mark/unmark dialog. The screen is called Select People. > 4. Navigate to your grandfather. The easiest way is to type his name > *Lastname, Firstname Middlename*. It really sort of sucks that it > does no good to have started out with him highlighted before you get > into the Select People dialog, but RM is not user very friendly > about entering into the Select People screen. > 5. *Mark group -> Ancestors of highlighted person* > 6. Pick your generations of ancestors value, and keep the default of > direct ancestors only. Click *Ok*. > 7. *Unmark Group -> Clear data by data fields* (this is where the > screen gets complicated) > 8. *Select field -> Number of sets of parents -> not equal to -> 0*. > The best way to get to the *Number of sets of parents* option is to > type N and then scroll down to the correct option. Click *Ok*. You > will get a message that says *Unmarked nnnnn people*, where nnnnn > will probably be a pretty big number. It is unmarking everybody in > your database who have parents, not just your ancestors who have > parents. So it is unmarking a bunch of people who were already > unmarked. That'a another confusing aspect of this part of the user > interface, but it cannot be helped until and unless the > RootsMagician decides to change it. I think the count should only > show those people who were previously marked who became unmarked, > but that's just me. > 9. Click *Ok *again to terminate the People selection process. > 10. Enter a name for the Group and click *Ok*. > 11. Click *Close*. > 12. Click *Ok *to exit QuickGroups. > > Here ends the creation of the group and the beginning of the creation of > the report. The 12 steps above don't have to be run again unless you > change the members of the group. The 4 steps below can then be run as > many times as you wish against the group. > > 1. *Reports -> Lists -> Individual List -> Generate report*. This of > course doesn't generate the report. Rather, it takes you to another > screen with more options. > 2. The *Selected People* radio button will already be highlighted. DO > NOT CHANGE THIS. DO NOT CLICK NO PARENTS OR MULTIPLE PARENTS OR > ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IN OTHER WORDS, DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH ANY > OF THE RADIO BUTTONS. SOMETIMES THE HARDEST THING TO DO IS NOTHING > 3. Where it says *People to include *and there is a large button (not a > radio button) that says *Everyone*. Click on *Everyone *and a list > of all your groups will appear in a drop down list. Click on the > group you just created to select that group. > 4. Click *Generate Report*. This time it really will generate the > report. Print it or save it to a file or whatever you want to do > with it. > > Jerry > > > > > =================================== > 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