When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? Guess going backward ME to 'end of line' maybe it doesn't make a difference ?????? Do I only see it looking like it might when I try to follow the line from the furthest point TOWARD me .. Then which child do I select to follow? If there are two children from the same family, a male and a female, does it choose the male? Gets confusing as there are multiple children in families and often in multiple as well as the same family lines . yes, Acadian and French Canadian !! Pat

The ancestor line doesn't care about multiple children, it only picks the parents of each generation. If one of the persons in the line happens to have more than one set of parents, natural, adopted, step etc. then the line follows the last one you looked at in the program. I do not understand the rest of your question. "Backward to me"? which way is backward, from your grand parents to you or from your grand children to you? Descendants lists will choose all the children. Alfred ================== On 3/18/2015 6:29 PM, Pat McGrath via wrote: > When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, > and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct > line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? > > > > Guess going backward ME to 'end of line' maybe it doesn't make a difference > ?????? > > > > Do I only see it looking like it might when I try to follow the line from > the furthest point TOWARD me .. Then which child do I select to follow? > > > > If there are two children from the same family, a male and a female, does it > choose the male? > > > > Gets confusing as there are multiple children in families and often in > multiple as well as the same family lines . yes, Acadian and French Canadian > !! > > > > Pat > >

It chooses the father. However, be aware that if the father married more than once, the report might pick the wrong mother. . Jim Belanger NH State Representative Hollis, NH www.belangers.us On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Pat McGrath via < [email protected]> wrote: > When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, > and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct > line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? > > > > Guess going backward ME to 'end of line' maybe it doesn't make a difference > ?????? > > > > Do I only see it looking like it might when I try to follow the line from > the furthest point TOWARD me .. Then which child do I select to follow? > > > > If there are two children from the same family, a male and a female, does > it > choose the male? > > > > Gets confusing as there are multiple children in families and often in > multiple as well as the same family lines . yes, Acadian and French > Canadian > !! > > > > Pat > > > > =================================== > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 3/18/2015 6:29 PM, Pat McGrath via wrote: > When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, > and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct > line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? How can you be descended from more than one child in a family? Only if siblings married, I guess. -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://my.rootsmagic.com/CRHoffpauir/ http://sites.rootsmagic.com/CharlieHoffpauir/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hoffpauir

On 3/18/15 8:37 PM, Charlie Hoffpauir via wrote: > On 3/18/2015 6:29 PM, Pat McGrath via wrote: >> When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, >> and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct >> line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? > How can you be descended from more than one child in a family? Only if > siblings married, I guess. > Or cousins (of some degree). -- Richard Damon

Unlike some software, Rootsmagic follows all the children of all the wives - this was key to my decision to use Rootsmagic. You can follow any line you want to. There isn't a default. You will however have a root person, probably yourself, and of course when you go backwards you'll be following your own direct line. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Pat McGrath via Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 6:29 PM To: 'RootsMagic Users List ' Subject: [RMagic] Which line (child) will RM follow ???? When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? Guess going backward ME to 'end of line' maybe it doesn't make a difference ?????? Do I only see it looking like it might when I try to follow the line from the furthest point TOWARD me .. Then which child do I select to follow? If there are two children from the same family, a male and a female, does it choose the male? Gets confusing as there are multiple children in families and often in multiple as well as the same family lines . yes, Acadian and French Canadian !! Pat =================================== 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com