Hello all I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Thanks in advance Ann

On 9/26/2015 11:05 PM, Ann Carson via wrote: > I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. > > Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in > birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? > > Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' > for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a > solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS > as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy > to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Ann, TMG's Journal only provides a separate section for people who have children. So to get a childless person to appear in his or her own section you have to attach a child, which you then edit out with a word processor. Second Site doesn't have that issue. Each person gets their own section or page, regardless of whether or not they have children. My solution is to add "Fake Child" to such people so they get their own section in a Journal, but make the child living so it doesn't appear in my site created with Second Site. Terry Reigel

Thanks very much Terry. Will use this solution until I get to SS. I'm preparing many draft journals at the moment for family members to check and add to. Am thinking that I should begin using some macros to quickly format these and edit out things like a Fake Child, before sending them to the relevant family member. Do you use a macro or just search and replace? Ann On 9/26/2015 11:05 PM, Ann Carson via wrote: > I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. > > Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear > in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? > > Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' > for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS > has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin > working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" > research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. And Terry responded: Ann, TMG's Journal only provides a separate section for people who have children. So to get a childless person to appear in his or her own section you have to attach a child, which you then edit out with a word processor. Second Site doesn't have that issue. Each person gets their own section or page, regardless of whether or not they have children. My solution is to add "Fake Child" to such people so they get their own section in a Journal, but make the child living so it doesn't appear in my site created with Second Site. Terry Reigel The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I don't have this problem at all, I set the sort order to birth date in the report options (SortBy). with kind regards Derek Bandy -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Carson via Sent: 27 September 2015 04:06 To: TMG@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Child without descendants in TMG Journal reports and/or Second Site Hello all I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Thanks in advance Ann The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message