gramps dependency report

 I have enjoyed a lifelines descendant report with a line per person with birthday death day and marriage date. This contains similar information as in a family historical report in an outline format rather than family lists and an index(In familysearch, it is possible run a series of family reports.)

I just figured I'd try something like Report>text>descendant. The form was not compact as I like with multiple line entries and blank lines in between. There were no page numbers. Below I have a paragraph describing documents to help understand the power of the reports. I compared the the contents with an earlier report (details omitted). Broadly it was most of the people considering the limited branch and only dead people limit. Lots of details were not quite the same and death dates were added. Unfortunately children were not displayed in birth order making comparison a bit tougher.

Trying the child order issue exposed me to another aspect of Gramps, Addons.

I like the lifelines solution of sorting after loading the children in creating the report. This is a heavy weighted solution that needs Tools>FamilyTree>SortChildren after adding/modifying family records, or before creating the report to be sure. This functionality recommends a backup before running it. This particular run affected 3 families and needed some manual ordering. Unfortunately a later report showed that the issue was not resolved, nor did it correctly order spouses. :(

Subsequently I have created a book to pull in a descendant report  along with a title, custom text, and alphabetical index. I like that it enables saving - so that minor tweaks may be made on the prior effort. There was an  iteration that included sources and citations. That is an effort for another time. Somehow the tree is more compressed too. I did not like how customizable text showed up in the Table of Contents, so dropped the later.

I have also tried "descendant book"  which I had basically built from lifelines with a conscious decision of which duplicate trees to eliminate.

Gramps has a bunch of reports (and documentation).
To see how to select reports
To see examples of the reports (saves trying them all)
There is lots of information on the reports that is reachable by hitting "Next" or
going back to the index and looking at 13) Reports - Index and Summaries.
For the textual reports
To customize the reports

Next:
  • back up .gramps file to save the ability to recreate book.
  • show fsids rather than gramps ids in gramps reports (or just hide them)
  • resolve sort issues of children and spouses
  • understand sources and citations better
  • understand other reports better
  • double check all info recorded from files in family group (this question had been answered before and a pass at a husband's family)

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