Re: [Gramps-users] is there a report that does this?

[Ron J. <ron...@co...>]

How would 3 different pedigree charts not help you?

On 07/01/2014 03:35 PM, TJMcK wrote:
> I have never seen such a report, and maybe no one else has seen such a
> report, but this is what I want.
>
> I would like to use a filter to select certain people (manually selecting
> them is too much work).
> Then I would have the option to go up the tree either by selecting fathers
> or mothers of the filtered individuals. (Selecting both results in too many
> people for this report.)
> Then, once the end of the line people, for either father's or mother's side,
> are found, the report would print a tree (or report) of all descendants of
> that person (I think it would be useful to have an option to choose how many
> generations the end of line person must have -- this would eliminate
> printing information for groups that are not as significant).
>
> Here's what I believe a report like this would be useful for:
> In my large dbase I have several families (call them "jones" or "Smith")
> that could be a main "genetic line".  I have not identified these lines yet,
> but with this report it would find the significant groups of Smiths, and
> with a hard copy like this I could compare the "trees" visually to see if
> there are similarities (for instance in birth places).
>
> Does this make sense?  It may be possible to create a filter within gramps
> for finding all end-of-the line people, but my filtering knowledge is too
> limited.  If this is the case then I could print out each decendancy report
> individually. (This may be the best option until a report like this is
> created.)
>
> Can someone help?
>
> EXAMPLE:
> -------------------------
> my gramps filter found person X1, Y1 and Z1
> I've selected to follow the father's line, so I have this
>       X5
>        \         Y4
>         X4        \
>          \          Y3
>           X3        \
>            \          Y2       Z2
>             X2        \        \
>              \          Y1       Z1
>               X1
> I have stated (in the report options) that there must be at least 4
> generations, so the Z line is discarded an only the descendants of X5 and Y4
> are printed.

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