Print Narrative Report for Specific Generations
I have a need to print narrative reports of specific descendant generations, or a range of descendant generations. I cannot figure out any way to do this without starting with my root ancestor and creating a narrative report of all descendants through the generation I need and then manually deleting the unwanted early generations and the associated endnotes. I was thinking it might be possible to create a script to weed out the generation(s) I need by utilizing Color Code by Consanguinity Degree #colorcoding #relationships, but of course I have no idea how to do this. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance 🙂
I have a script I slightly tweaked on consanguinity -- based on one Jerry wrote awhile back. Does about to 15 degree then colors every person beyond that the same there after --
Essentially the darker the close the lighter the further away
As I understand it, you want a narrative report covering the (m)th to the (n)th generation descendants of a given person. You asked whether color coding might be a means to that end.
I can think of no way to produce such a report from RootsMagic short of what you are doing: the full descendency from someone to the (n)th generation and then, in MS Word, inspecting and deleting everyone above the (m)th generation.
Color coding could help with the inspection. For example, clear color coding for everyone and then color code red the descendants of the reference person down to the (m-1)th generation. Then generate the report and delete all the narratives of people whose names are red.
However, I expect you will have issues with pagination, ToC, Indexes.
What might be an alternative?
- Find a program that produces such a report and can either read the RM database file or import the GED file from RM satisfactorily.
- Would a batch of Individual Summary reports for that range of descendants serve your purpose? I think you could create a Group of the m to n generations descendants and print all the IS reports for that Group in one go.
- Submit your n-generations narrative PDF from RM to a pro-level AI system and instruct it to recast the content the way you want. I don't know if that would work but there are others deeply involved with applying AI services to assist with family tree research, analysis and reporting who might. There are many forums on the topic of Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence - look up a few.
- I think it highly unlikely that anyone in this forum would volunteer to write a program that could produce such a report from a RM database.
The only other thing I can think of is to use FBC with FTM (Family Book Creator) add in with Family Tree Maker -- than would cost about $150 with both unless promo available.