Chart, Report, or Tree?

[robin reid]

hi
This might be very basic but I'm having trouble finding it. I'd like a chart, tree, report, anything that will show descendants of a married couple, including both sets of their parents. I almost had it using Book, but it would only include one half of the couple, with no information about the parents of the other half. Is there anything that will do this for me? Thanks.

[A Ginn]

Here are a couple of things to try:

Tree View
Hourglass - one generation of ancestors, whatever you want for descendants to a max of four generations.

Charts
First, mark descendants of the source couple, include the settings for unmark everyone first and mark source couple.
Second, mark the four parents of the source couple (click the check marks on their buttons).
Third, navigate to one of the children of the source couple and generate a relative chart for that person, up two generations, marked people only.

[A Ginn]

Another idea: Playing with the settings in the hourglass Book Report format might give you something acceptable. For both the Tree View and Book Report, the hourglass format retrieves the ancestry of both members of a couple.

Reports and charts based upon the relationships of a single source person may require the generation shift approach I mentioned in the previous post, however. For example, your spouse's family are not your relatives or ancestors, but they are for your children. Move across the generations until all the people you want to report are relatives or ancestors of your source. Use marking or chart box editing to help fine tune the results if necessary.

Alan

[John M. Leggett]

Another idea: Playing with the settings in the hourglass Book Report format might give you something acceptable. For both the Tree View and Book Report, the hourglass format retrieves the ancestry of both members of a couple.

Reports and charts based upon the relationships of a single source person may require the generation shift approach I mentioned in the previous post, however. For example, your spouse's family are not your relatives or ancestors, but they are for your children. Move across the generations until all the people you want to report are relatives or ancestors of your source. Use marking or chart box editing to help fine tune the results if necessary.

Alan

You wrote "For example, your spouse's family are not your relatives or ancestors, but they are for your children."

I think you mean to meant to say that your spouse's family are not your BLOOD relatives.. My wife's father is not my BLOOD relative but he is my father-in-law and thus a relative. The same is the case with many of my aunts, uncles and cousins.

[A Ginn]

Hi,

Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear about that. My response was strictly in the context of generating the Relative Chart for yourself, for which purpose Reunion only considers blood relatives (with spouses) and therefore your spouse's family members are not charted among your relatives.

Alan