Individual Timeline Report?

[Carolyn Maydole Hoard]

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I just thought I'd jump back in since this is an active discussion again and tell you what I've settled on....at least for now. First, I don't use timelines for everyone; I only put one together when I am having trouble with someone I am researching.

I ended up creating a Numbers template with columns for...

Checkbox - Age - Year - Date - Event - Place - Source - Notes
(The checkbox is marked when I am sure the fact applies to MY person)

I'm thinking of linking these into Reunion as a general source for the person, so that I can click and see it when I want, but I'm undecided on that at this point.

Kim, if I'm understanding you correctly, you would be entering data manually into your Numbers template (?). How do you link it to Reunion?

[Kim]

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Kim, if I'm understanding you correctly, you would be entering data manually into your Numbers template (?). How do you link it to Reunion?

The truth is that I haven't linked them yet. I'm thinking I will have to save them as a PDF and then create a 'Timeline' source, then link the PDF as multimedia. I'm not sure if I will ever get to that point though. Right now I just have them all saved in a 'Surname-Timeline' folder for each of my main branches. Then I name each file SURNAME_Firstname_timeline.numbers.

[Melinda Anderson]

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Hope it works for you!

I GOT IT! In both Excel and Word!!! I had already created some in Excel for a few of my challenging ancestors- and didn't realize until tonight that I could export the Events into Word- much better than typing them in again!!!! I'm getting so much out of this thread! Woo hoo!

[Melinda Anderson]

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There's no need to copy and paste the info into Excel to get a Timeline grid. A Word table is a grid, and I just figured out how to get a Word doc Timeline for an individual as a result of this thread (thank you!). Here's what I had to do in Reunion that was a little different than Carolyn, then after that, five images are attached that show how to easily make your Word timeline grid.

Reunion:
1) I had only one person checked, but when I created the List and selected Events from the callout, I got a results list of Events for every person in my database. I clicked on the Settings icon at the bottom of the Results: List-Events window and chose "Who: Marked People." Everyone was deleted except my marked person.
2) Clicked the Share icon at the bottom of the list, chose Destination: Open in Word.

See attached images to see what I got. Word creates tab-delimited rows of all the rows that were in the Reunion Events tab of your marked person. You drag/move the tabs to solve spacing and wrapping issues, then do Table/Convert/Convert Text to Table and choose Tabs as the delimited. Bingo, it turns your person's Event data into a grid.

With text, I always prefer working in Tables in Word over using Excel, unless computation functions are needed in the document. (You can add up a column of numbers in a Word table, but it's pretty useless because it won't automatically refresh the total if you change one of the numbers.) For those who aren't familiar with the Table function, I strongly urge you to familiarize yourself with it, it's not hard. My lists of books and microfilm to look up on research trips are in a 3-column table: 1) Call number/author/name of book or film; 2) Who/What to look for; 3) Results found (or not). Couldn't do any of my work without tables.

FWIW, image captures were created and annotated in Snagit.

Cheers,
Susan

Thank you so much for this detailed explanation- very helpful!

[Yamaha_Mama]

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Help!! I followed the recommendations to make an Ages report from Events. It worked. I then added some new events to my individual, and while all the events show up on the persons events page, the Ages side bar is blank for both my person of interest and her husband. I can go to another couple and their events show up on the side bar. What have I done wrong??? Thanks in advance for your help. Marilyn

[Yamaha_Mama]

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I solved my own problem. I turned off Reunion and my computer and let it sit a while. When I turned it back on....it worked perfectly. I had tried that earlier...but apparently didn't leave enough time for the gremlins to escape!!!

[Carolyn Maydole Hoard]

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Good to hear!