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From: Alfred Eller <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Narrative Report Problem
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:26:40 -0500
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Check the "Options" button when doing a narrative report.
There is a field for what to print when there are no facts.
The default sentence template is:
[person] was born (date unknown).
You must have removed the sentence at one time.
Without the [person] in the sentence template, the name of anyone who
has no facts will not show up in the narrative reports.

This has been cussed and discussed for years.

Alfred Eller
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~adelr/index.htm
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George W. Durman wrote:
> Tonight, I discovered something when creating a Narrative
> Report.
>
> If children are listed for a couple, but no birth information is
> entered (no date or place), AND the Living box is UNCHECKED,
> when doing a Narrative Report for the father or mother, the
> children's names are not listed, just child number.
>
> I just realized that I have many, many couples with children
> where the children's dates and places of birth are not known.
> These are children who most certainly are deceased since
> their parents married in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries.
>
> I suppose that now when printing out Narrative Reports for
> any of the parents, no children will be listed. Is this a bug
> or is it deliberate?
>
> People marked as Living also don't show up in the Narrative
> Report. I can understand people's names not showing up in
> a database posted on the Internet because of security reasons
> when they are marked as Living, but when creating a report for
> family consumption, it seems to me that one should have the
> choice of whether they appear.
>
> The same problem doesn't appear when creating a Descen-
> dant List or a Family Group Sheet, just appears in a Narrative
> report.
>
> Thanks,
> Sarge
>

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