I already had a focus group of my ancestors and just created a report including age at death to the standard output. Quick and easy way to skim for those over 80. Might be fun for her son to look for the oldest people in his ancestry - or the ones who died young. Thanks for the tip, Donald. I so rarely use lists that I wouldn't have thought of it. - Sally On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Donald Range <[email protected]> wrote: > A List of People report, filtered for Age at death > greater than > 100 > may turn up a short list of likely candidates. If not, try a lower number > than 100. Include Age at death as a report output column to make it easy to > screen the list. I tried this and found a clear winner in my database who > died at age 236 - so some data cleanup is clearly needed. > > > > On 4/4/2018 9:53 AM, Roger Troutman wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My grandson (aged 7) asked me who and how old was our oldest ancestor. I >> find no obvious way to figure this out in my TMG database (v. >> 9.05).running >> on Windows 7, >> >> I know the data is in the database, I just can't figure out how to and/or >> if it can be extracted without looking individually at several thousand >> ancestors >> >> I'm not sure whether this is a low-bar, high-bar or brick wall question >> but >> any suggestions would be appreciated. By means of a default (listed) >> report, a created report, data list, data export etc. etc. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Roger Troutman >> Mansfield, Ohio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ances >> try.com/th/index/TMG/ >> Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry >> .com/index/other/Software/TMG.html >> _______________________________________________ >> You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb >> Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: >> https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:[email protected]? >> subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe >> >> View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestr >> y.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ >> >> Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at >> https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more >> information. Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions >> https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions >> >> RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb >> community >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ances > try.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry > .com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > _______________________________________________ > You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb > Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: > https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:[email protected]? > subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe > > View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestr > y.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ > > Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more information. > Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions > > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community >