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1. amp Rose Fitzgerald John Fitzgerald Kennedy amp Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Caroline Bouvier Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr Patrick Bouvier Kennedy For Whom When you create a descendant report Reunion will start with the couple on the current family card and look downward forward in time It gathers information about all the descendants of this couple until it reaches the end of a lineage or the specified ending generation 2 to 99 Multiple Spouses for the Source Couple Descendant reports show the descendants of a couple not an individual If either member of the couple on the current family card the source couple has multiple spouses the descendants of their other spouses will not be included in the report This is because the child of a man s second marriage is not a descendant of his first marriage or vice versa If you need to show descendants of multiple spouses of the source couple then you need to change the source couple Start the report from a parent or other ancestor of the current source couple Creating a Descendant Report To make a descendant report choose Create gt Descendant Report A window full of options will appear February 26 2010 Page 8 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Name Setup Name Setup is a setting that refers to the style in which names of descendants and their Spouses are presented in descendant reports and descendant charts To change t2. Family Group Sheets What do you know and how do you know it Preferences gt Reports Pictures size Signature date amp contact info Create gt Family Group Sheet gt Print Preview Adding Children Layout gt Children Family Fields gt Children Normal vs Questionnaire Print Preview vs Pages e Print Preview Lines cannot edit text e Word Processor Editable resize pictures Printing the date and contact info at the bottom on the page File gt Page Setup Paper Size gt Manage Custom Sizes gt Page Size TYPE IN 8 5 x 11 OK February 26 2010 Page 3 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 What Is a Family History Report This report begins with one couple and moves forward in time It includes descendants children children s children etc of the source couple along with information about each descendant along the way It is a very comprehensive genealogy document one that lends itself well to data verification and publishing Each descendant in a family history report is assigned a number which symbolizes the descendant s relationship to the source couple Reunion uses the Legal outline numbering method a system which lets you see at a glance or at least figure out in a few seconds the relationships between people in the family history report Creating a Family History Report To make a family history report choose Create gt Family History Report A window will a
3. the fourth generation from George Surnames are included only if different from the previous generation In the example above Barry s mother Susan had a different surname than Barry Including the parenthetical reference to earlier generations brings the Register report closer to the true Register standard Register Report Narrative of one couple and their descendants Narrative format Create gt Register Report gt Pages or Web Folder Layouts Miscellaneous Numbers for each person Sources and Index Prune to only directs Generations Add material from internet or images of documents February 26 2010 Page 7 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 What Is a Descendant Report Reunion creates descendant reports and descendant charts In both cases the document begins with one couple and looks forward in time down the roots as it were from the starting couple on the current family card A descendant report is an indented text outline showing descendants of the source couple for a specified number of generations Descendant reports don t have graphic elements such as boxes or lines Here is a small example of a descendant report Joseph Patrick Kennedy amp Rose Fitzgerald John Fitzgerald Kennedy amp Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Caroline Bouvier Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr Patrick Bouvier Kennedy Here is the graphic version a descendant chart Joseph Patrick Kennedy
4. Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Note The main text of this instruction is lifted from the Reunion User s Manual the icon at the top of your poly Reunion Family File I have added a few of my own words here and there pb What Is a Family Group Sheet The most commmonly used form in genealogy is the Family Group Sheet FGS It provides details about one immediate family Usually includes husband wife and children A family group sheet is a form that shows information about one immediate family This typically includes the husband wife and children The family group sheet has become popular primarily through its heavy use by the LDS an abbreviation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Reunion adheres to the traditional layout of family group sheets one which conveys information about a family and its members Family group sheets do not include details about other families in which a husband or wife participated The family group sheet focuses on the husband and wife shown on the current family card If you want to create a family group sheet for a person and another of his or her spouses you should create the family group sheet from the family card showing the correct husband and wife Creating a Family Group Sheet To create a family group sheet choose Create gt Family Group Sheet This opens the Create Family Group Sheet window _ Create Family Group Sheet Who _ Current family All fam
5. Rose Elizabeth FITZGERALD 6 John Vernou BOUVIER III 7 Janet Norton LEE Ahnentafel Report Narrative of one person and their ancestors Narrative format Create gt Ahnentafel Report gt Pages or Web Folder Layouts Miscellaneous Numbers for each person Sources and Index Prune to only directs Generations Add material from internet or images of documents Other Reports Preparing for research trips Lists and Lifelines Ages Report e Ages gt Options gt Report Page Setup gt Landscape Select text gt Table gt Convert gt Convert text to table Or copy into a spreadsheet Surname Report e Change gt Mark Groups gt Ancestors of ___ Unmark everyone first gt Mark gt Close e List gt Last Names gt Marked People Report gt Pages gt Open Places Report e List gt Places gt All People gt check Events gt List Report gt Pages gt Open February 26 2010 Page 12 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages
6. ayout popup menu Most of the layout settings for family history reports are common to other reports and are discussed here One layout setting Generation Prefix is explained below February 26 2010 Page 4 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Settings Person Fields Family Fields wv Spouse Fields Layout settings for om Append to Names family history reports Event Format Generation Prefix Index An index will appear at the end of family history reports The index is an alphabetized list of all people in the report Each line of the index will include a person s last name first name Legal outline number and if the person is not a descendant of the source couple a notation describing his relationship to a descendant such as spouse of or parent of spouse of Index excerpt RICKENBAUGH Joelle Christa ee re Michelle Robin 1 3 5 1a Rebecca Ruth parent of spouse of 1 3 1 Robert Jackson spouse of 1 3 5 Robert Stanley parent of spouse of 1 3 5 Family History Report One couple and their descendants Create gt Family History Report gt Pages or Web Folder Numbers for each person Sources and Index Prune to only directs Generations Add material from internet or images of documents What Is a Register Report The Register report is named for the New England Historical and Genealogical Register For some genealogists this report is the preferred document for genealogy tex
7. e on the G tions i enerations 5 current family card and look Y Prune Bold children only downward forward in time It gathers Marked descendants only information about all the descendants M Use privacy filtering of this couple until it reaches the end of Include v Sources v Preferred pictures Web media page a lineage or the specified ending E generation 2 to 99 Title Register Report Layout Frank s Format 3 How Many Generations Destination Web Folder I O Web Preferences To set the size of a Register report use the up down arrows next to the 2 Cancel Saen Generations field or type a number into the field Register reports can be from 2 to 99 generations The size in number of characters is limited only by the amount of available disk space Pruning amp Layout Same as Family History Report Miscellaneous The Define Register Report Layouts window contains a Miscellaneous setting with several choices that are unique to Register reports February 26 2010 Page 6 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Miscellaneous M Subtitles for parents v Number people without children Subtitles for parents _ Include memos for events If this option is enabled Reunion will insert subtitles in M include parenthetical ancestry the Register report to make the report more readable The gt Parenthetcal ancestry in italics subtitles are the names of pa
8. he style click the Change button and pick one of the eight basic styles To include spouses of descendants be sure to pick a setup that includes the spouse Descendants with multiple spouses will be listed once for each marriage and have asterisks after their names This is a descendant chart showing direct lines Peter LEISTER Ellen LEISTER William Allen APPLE Harry Melvin LEISTER Sr 3rd cousins Harry Melvin LEISTER Jr arry Franklin LEISTER This is a descendant report showing direct lines Common ancestor s r Peter LEISTER Harry Jerome LEISTER Mary Ellen LEISTER William Allen APPLE Allen William APPLE Franklin Benjamin LEISTER Harry Melvin LEISTER Sr Harry Melvin LEISTER Jr Harry Franklin LEISTER Another way to achieve a very limited chart only including the connections between you and another person is using Marking Children of Multiple Spouses in Descendant Reports In a descendant report descendants with multiple spouses will be listed once for each marriage There are two exceptions 1 Descendant reports in Reunion show the descendants of a couple not a person If either the husband or wife of the current family card the source couple has multiple spouses the descendants of their other spouses will not be listed If you need to show descendants of multiple spouses of the source couple then you need to change the
9. ilies 1415 For Whom C Families with a marked spouse In the Create Family Group Families with both spouses marked Sheet window you have the option to create a family group Sort by Last Name First Name HA sheet for Format Normal 3 Questionnaire fl Use privacy filtering ethe family on the current family card Include M Sources vi Preferred pictures Title Family Group Sheet Layout Default KA efamilies with both spouses estination rint Preview cs i Print Preview YF Fonts marked this includes marked mee single people 2 Cancel G sie People If you choose to print family group sheets for families with a marked spouse Reunion automatically finds all the families with a marked spouse and creates the family group sheets one by one eall families efamilies with a marked spouse Example A Family Group Sheet for All of My Ancestors Let s say you want to print a family group sheet for the families of your direct ancestors Here s the easy way to do it February 26 2010 Page 1 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 1 From your family card choose Change gt Mark Groups Click on your name next to the button called Ancestors of Make sure the Unmark everybody first button is checked and then click Mark This will mark all of your direct ancestors Click Close 2 Choose Create gt Family Group Sheet Click Families with a marked spouse No
10. of Person amp Family Group Sheets Person sheets and family group sheets can be created in two basic formats Normal and Questionnaire 1 Normal If the Normal format is selected person sheets and family group sheets will not include empty fields For example if no birth date is recorded for a person Reunion will not add an empty space for the birth date in the report This option makes the most efficient use of space 2 Questionnaire If the Questionnaire format is selected person sheets and family group sheets will include room for any field in the current layout even for fields that are empty Questionnaires are ideal worksheets for gathering data from relatives They show at a glance what information you have and what information has yet to be found Additional Spouses in Person Sheets When you select the Questionnaire format for person sheets the Additional spouses popup menu will appear letting you include room for additional spouses in case your research ona particular person is not complete Format Normal Questionnaire Additional spouses 2 HJ _ 4 Additional Children in Family Group When you choose the Questionnaire format Sheets this popup menu appears When you select the Questionnaire format for family group sheets the Additional children popup menu button will appear letting you include room for additional children in case your research on a particular family is not complete
11. ppear with several options Create Family History Report For Whom Who Jonathan BURNS amp Catherie PEIFFER When you create a family history report Reunion will start with the ienasi E couple on the current family card and Prune Bold children only look downward forward in time It M Marked descendants only gathers information about all the M Use privacy filtering descendants of this couple until it reaches the end of a lineage or the Include v Sources v Preferred pictures v Web media page rea specified ending generation 2 to 99 Title Family History Report SSS ae How Many Generations S M Zaa To set the size of a family history see C a report use the up down arrows next D ee nm to the Generations field or type a a number into the field Family history reports can be from 2 to 99 generations The size in number of characters is limited only by the amount of available disk space Pruning The Family History Report window provides two check box buttons for pruning large family history reports by including only descendants who appear as children with bold text descendants who are marked descendants who are marked and also appear as children in bold text These options provide the means to prune what otherwise may become very large reports Layout After choosing Create gt Family History Report layouts can be changed by choosing Define Layouts from the L
12. rents preceding a group of children Include last names for children a Never HA Subtitle for parents w number of Roy Lee Birth amp death dates for children Family of Roy Lee LEISTER 26 amp Mary Ellen HART Abbreviated KA 1912 2004 61 Roy Dervin LEISTER Roy Lee Harry Jerome Peter David Born on 6 Jul 1929 On 9 May 1955 when Roy Dervin was 25 he married Shirley Ann HELSEL Born on 27 Oct 1934 They had the following children 147 i Roy Dervin Jr 1956 148 ii Shirl Ann 1957 Include parenthetical ancestry This option refers to the insertion of direct ancestors in parentheses after each descendant s name in the Register report Direct ancestors refer only to the direct line from the descendant to the source couple from whom the Register report begins 61 Roy Dervin LEISTER Roy Lee Harry Jerome Peter David For example se ial dicks have 2 pein l Born on 6 Jul 1929 a Register report whose Register number is 2101 and his name is John John s father was Parenthetical ancestry Barry and Barry s mother was Susan Susan s father was George the progenitor If the button Include parenthetical ancestry was checked then John s entry in the Register report would read as follows 2101 John LastName Barry Susan MaidenName 2 Georget John was born etc This format immediately gives the reader John s lineage back to George and the reader also knows that John is
13. s ancestors parents parents parents etc of the source person along with information about each ancestor along the way The report is similar to a pedigree chart it begins with a source person and moves backward in time Each ancestor is assigned a unique ahnentafel number beginning with 1 for the source person Ahnentafel is a German word that translates as ancestor table The report is divided by generation Ahnentafel Numbering The ahnentafel or Sosa Stradonitz numbering system assigns the number 1 to the source person The father of number 1 is number 2 The spouse of 2 is 3 The rule is to find the father of a person double the number To find the The ahnentafel numberi tem eee eee E mother of a person double the number and 8 9 10 11 12 13 H 15 add 1 l l l l Creating an Ahnentafel Report i j l To create an ahnentafel report choose Create gt Ahnentafel Report A window will appear with several options i _ 5 p Source Peal February 26 2010 Page 10 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Create Ahnentafel Report Harry Walter DIETRICH a Maglada SHADLE For Whom u Vernie Magiada When you create an ahnentafel Generations 2 g report Reunion will start with a E person on the current family Prune _ Marked ancestors only card and look backward It M Remove duplication gathers information about all _ Use privacy filtering direct ancestors of the starting per
14. son until it reaches the beginning of a lineage or it Title Ahnentafel Report reaches the specified number of generations 2 to 99 Layout Default is Destination RTF File is Pruning amp Layout A Cani aa Same as Family History Report Miscellaneous Settings The Ahnentafel Report Layout window contains a Miscellaneous setting with four choices that are unique to ahnentafel reports Include v Sources _ Preferred pictures Miscellaneous l Subtitles None La None Page breaks Generation l List children Relationship _ Include memos for events Subtitles Ahnentafel reports are divided by generation The Subtitles popup menu gives you three options for the title applied to each generation of the report No Titles 1 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr 2 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY 3 Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER 4 Joseph Patrick KENNEDY 5 Rose Elizabeth FITZGERALD 6 John Vernou BOUVIER III 7 Janet Norton LEE February 26 2010 Page 11 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Generation First Generation 1 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr Second Generation 2 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY 3 Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER Third Generation 4 Joseph Patrick KENNEDY 5 Rose Elizabeth FITZGERALD 6 John Vernou BOUVIER III 7 Janet Norton LEE Relationship 1 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr Parents 2 John Fitzgerald KENNEDY 3 Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER Grandparents 4 Joseph Patrick KENNEDY 5
15. source couple Start the report from a parent or other ancestor of the current source couple February 26 2010 Page 9 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 2 If you have opted not to include spouses of descendants in a descendant report and a person with multiple spouses is in the last generation of the report then this person will not be listed twice See the examples below The first example below does not show spouses thus James Larry Leonard who was married twice only shows once Because the second example shows spouses James Larry Leonard appears twice Descendant Report Excerpt 1 without Spouses James Bell Leonard 1894 1960 James John Bell Leonard 1922 James Larry Leonard 1943 Kay Marie Leonard 1945 Descendant Report Excerpt 2 with Spouses James Bell Leonard 1894 1960 amp Bertha Hammaker 1903 1979 James John Bell Leonard 1922 amp Evelyn Stewart 1926 James Larry Leonard 1943 amp Judith Kiner 1947 James Larry Leonard 1943 amp Pamela Klinger 1954 Kay Marie Leonard 1945 amp Ronald Michaels Descendant Report Listing descendants of one ancestor List format Create gt Descendant Report gt Pages or Web Folder Layouts Name Setup Prune for Bold Children only Generations What Is an Ahnentafel Report An ahnentafel report is a narrative style report that begins with one person and moves backward in time The ahnentafel report include
16. ts Reunion creates a Register style report where a narrative paragraph is created for each person beginning with a selected couple and including all descendants up to a specified number of generations The numbering system is described as follows each descendant is assigned a unique number beginning with 1 for the source followed by his children as 2 3 4 etc In the body of the report children in a family are listed with lowercase Roman numerals The entire report is divided by generations February 26 2010 Page 5 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Register Numbering a diagram E 3 2 4 4 Children gt 6 E7 8 9 Grandchildren Register Numbering a text version 1 source person f 10 11 Great Grandchildren 2 source person s 1st child 3 source person s 2nd child 5 source person s 2nd child s 1st child 6 source person s 2nd child s 2nd child 7 source person s 2nd child s 3rd child 10 source person s 2nd child s 3rd child s 1st child 11 source person s 2nd child s 3rd child s 2nd child 4 source person s 3rd child 8 source s 3rd child s lst child 9 source s 3rd child s 2nd child Creating a Register Report To create a Register report choose Create gt Register Report A window will appear with several options Create Register Report I For Whom Who Michael LAUVER amp Anna KINDIG When you create a Register report Reunion will start with the coupl
17. w you re ready to automatically create a family group sheet for all of your direct ancestors Layout The layout of family group sheets can be defined and changed by choosing Define Layouts from the Layout popup menu in the Create Family Group Sheet window Most of the layout settings for family group sheets are common to other reports and are discussed here Settings A Person Fields amp Family Fields Children Fields Pee Children Family Fields for Family Group Sheets Append to Names Event Format Sorting Fields Children Family Fields The layout setting Children Family Fields refers to the family fields for children in a family group sheet which are chosen independently of the family fields for the source couple These are chosen in the Family Fields setting see above example Children Family Fields One of the items in the Children Family Family ID Z Fields list is Children If checked the g Marriage a family group sheets will include a space pi under each child for a list of the child s Divorce Annulled Separated L children In other words if you create a 4d Misc Notes v family group sheet for you and your Add am spouse your children are included and a _ line under each of your children is GP Phone FAX _ included for your grandchildren A e mail D Web Page Children February 26 2010 Page 2 Patricia Burrow March 2010 pages Reunion for the Mac March 2010 Format
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