I am trying to add research notes in an ancestors report but in the options, the children's notes is greyed out. How do I get it to allow me to check that oprion?

Danny

It appears that printing the children's notes is not an option for the Ancestor Book report (is that the report you're looking at?). The Options screen is the same for all reports, so it's a catch-all rather than what's possible for any particular report.

I have to wonder, though, why you would want to print the notes for the children in the section for their parents? You can select the notes to be printed in the next generation where the children are listed.

I'm not the last word in all things Legacy, I'm just the admin of this board who's had a little practice with the program and tries to help where I can. You may have good reasons for wanting to include these notes with the parents, and I'd be interested in hearing your arguments here on the board if you care to share.

In any case, if you would like to make a suggestion to the programmers, see the link "Suggest a new feature" on the Home tab in Legacy to do so.

Kind Regards,
Wendy

Hi Wendy

Maybe I am not at the right place in the report then. One ancestor's brother I have included research notes on him. When I preview the ancestors report (book), I don't see those notes. It is those notes I am trying to get the report to include. Thanks

Danny

Hi Danny,

Your ancestor's brother is not your ancestor, so he will not appear in any ancestor report of your ancestors.

You may find a descendants' report more useful to include the information you want to show.

If a report from your current database will pick up more people than you want to include, consider making a copy of your file and unlinking the unwanted from the wanted, or exporting a focus group, or using tags to export the wanted people.

I don't want to flood you with a whole lot of instructions here, so do take some time to look up some of the terms I've used in the Help file in Legacy, and come back here and ask more questions if you need to.

I've "talked" before about the unlinking bit, along with deleting them, too - see the Legacy User Group archives at legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/msg19210.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/... for a post where I've described my use of it.

If that link doesn't work (I've had problems posting links to this archive in these boards before), go to http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp and scroll down to find the link to the archives. Then once there, search for a thread with the subject line "Gedcom file for a specific family surname only - I don't understand how to do it" and that will find it for you.

Hope this helps. :-)

Kind Regards,
Wendy

Hi Wendy

Thanks for this informtion. I will review it.

Danny