Date collater in F.Tree package

[Waitabit]

A rather long time ago, my first forage into Family Tree software was with a little package named I think, ' Family Tree- 311' the numbers are the only thing I really remember. Twas used on Windows '95. ( aquired via "Sunday Paper advert)

This little goodie was able to collate all Births,Deaths or Marriages of the same date, & present them for viewing.

My current Legacy won't do that, (5 Deluxe) & I wonder if anyone has experience of a package that will do so.
Why? because having had a taste I want it again.

'Twould save my fingers a lot of walking around my files if so. Worth the outlay to aquire another Software package I do believe.

TIA, Wendy :)

[MarkJ]

The software I use on my website allows you to display all events listed by a specific date - I am quite surprised that other software doesn't!

Not a feature I use myself as a rule (although the software does display events for todays date on the main page), so I checked if my "on computer" software displays events by date and yes, there is a function to display all events by date (or month, or year or pretty much anything else to be honest).

Not that this probably helps - the software on my computer is Gramps - which is a Linux package - and the software on my website is phpGedView, which really needs to be run on a server (although it *can* be run on a home PC running various operating systems, even Windows).

Are you sure your software doesn't have this kind of functionality somewhere - perhaps under Events or Options or some sort of search via date or something?

Mark

[Waitabit]

Thanks Mark, I did find that a highlighted individual & Spouse (if there is one) were listed with Birthdate how old they were at death,how long ago it was, - Marriage date & how long ago as with Death date. Does not however tell me who else was born or married on that date. Unless I go searching the index.

I even asked, when looking into updating 'Legacy' if it was included in the new software, & they'd never heard of it.

I also intend, on a slow day- Hah!, to list all of the addresses from specific censuses or other dates just to see them on one page & see who lived how close to who.
I know it doesn't mean these Families kept contact or even liked each other, but it will entertain me. I just have to wait for that slow day to pop up.

Search can give me a list of baddates, (invalids) where I have inadvertently put in a full stop of number zero in place of letter ' o', so now I have a whole bunch more of corrections to do if I'm to please 'Legacy'.

Oh well, I've probably saved some money.

[Geoffers]

Have a look at the 'Family Historian' web-site, it's now on Version 4. You can do all sorts of things with the custom query facility.

[Waitabit]

Thank you Super Geoffers, that looks like the plan !
Spent too long checking out all of the various sites with info, did the tour, looked a reasonable price,checked with a local outlet online,(shock horror) multiply by three that reasonable price. However that seems to be the whole works -book & box. First price must have been for the download of bare essentials. Anyway it seems to have just what my li'l heart desires. |hug|

& I'm worth it

[Guy Etchells]

Many programs contain such a feature.
In Brothers Keeper use the word search option.

Just type in a date in the baptisms and all baptisms for that date appear.
Ditto with a wide range of search options including source.
Cheers
Guy

[Geoffers]

However that seems to be the whole works -book & box. First price must have been for the download of bare essentials. Anyway it seems to have just what my li'l heart desires.

Jolly good. I'm still on Version 2 as the way my records are organized I tend not to need to use all the facilities of these programmes. But even V2 is very good. There is also a specific user group to help those who use the programme - use a search engine to find "fhug forum".



& I'm worth it

You certainly are.

[arthurk]

If you haven't yet worked out how to get what you're looking for, could I ask for some clarification? Are you wanting to print out a chronological list of births from (say) 1600 to 2010, and the same for deaths and marriages, and then collate them into one long list from way back down to the present, or is it more a kind of calendar function showing the events on each day from 1 Jan to 31 Dec?

To get the former from Legacy you could start with one of its own listings, but I think you'd need an extra program as well. However, you can get the latter with its Calendar List report - though only for births and marriages.

Arthur

[Waitabit]

Guy, thank you- I'm rather taken by the F.Historian tho', just have to waitabit for finances to allow.

Arthur thank you also,... I tried the calender on Legacy, it just wants calculate time between two dates. I need to bring forth all events for a particular date.
GOOD HEAVENS...as you were!!!!!!

I just had another look to clarify what I'm trying to say. I looked only on calender NOT on calender REPORT! Had only seen calender creator in earlier lookins.
|bowdown|

I apologise for taking up so much space but will leave this as is to show how an old duck can also be a 'goose'. (did I hear "look before you.."?):o

How happy am I? & now can save my 'biccies' when I get them.

[arthurk]

Glad to help - it's not quite what you originally asked for (ie deaths as well) but it seemed a pretty useful tool.

Arthur

[Guy Etchells]

Guy, thank you- I'm rather taken by the F.Historian tho', just have to waitabit for finances to allow.

Arthur thank you also,... I tried the calender on Legacy, it just wants calculate time between two dates. I need to bring forth all events for a particular date.
GOOD HEAVENS...as you were!!!!!!

I just had another look to clarify what I'm trying to say. I looked only on calender NOT on calender REPORT! Had only seen calender creator in earlier lookins.
|bowdown|

I apologise for taking up so much space but will leave this as is to show how an old duck can also be a 'goose'. (did I hear "look before you.."?):o

How happy am I? & now can save my 'biccies' when I get them.

Not necessarily Brothers Keeper is shareware so you could try for a while before deciding and Family Historian has a trial version.
Both of these would enable you to import your data using gedcom, test the various features and buy or not at a later date when finances afford.
Cheers
Guy

[arthurk]

There's also a free version of RootsMagic, which will produce a list of birthdays and wedding anniversaries, and the paid version has a calendar function as well. As you probably know, there's a free version of Legacy, but I don't know how v.7 standard would compare with your existing v.5 deluxe, and if it would include the calendar you're looking for. In the end, if you're happy with what you've got, why change?

Arthur

[Waitabit]

Again, Guy & Arthur, thanks for input.
After initial excitement I found the 'calendar list' still not what I wanted. It gives every name no matter when born or married & pops up how old they'd be or how long married on the date I input, instead of just the events for that year.

Back to trial packages methinks or stop wanting improbables.

More important things loom for now.

[arthurk]

Again, Guy & Arthur, thanks for input.
After initial excitement I found the 'calendar list' still not what I wanted. It gives every name no matter when born or married & pops up how old they'd be or how long married on the date I input

If you look at the Include and Options tabs, you'll see that there are lots of ways to customise the output, such as who to include, whether to include ages and places etc.


instead of just the events for that year.

This is where I'm not too sure what you're looking for. (See one of my earlier posts.) Rather than a calendar, are you wanting a list of, say, all BMDs in 1865, and another one for 1866, etc etc? This would probably be possible, but it might need a number of separate steps, and without knowing exactly what you're wanting, I don't want to spend very long working at something which might not be the right answer for you.

Most programs allow you to create reports for defined groups of people. These are often found by searching, and depending on the program and the complexity of searches it allows, you might need to run a search more than once to narrow down to the group you want. Once you've got this, in Legacy you'd apply a tag to the group, and then create the calendar (or other report) for those with that tag.

One program which I sometimes use for fairly complex searches is GENViewer. This is a read-only program which operates alongside your existing FH program (it can read Legacy files directly), and you can use it to sort your data and create very specific reports and lists in ways which other programs don't always manage. However, I'm not sure it's exactly what you'd need.

Anyway, I'll leave this for now as I note that you have other more pressing things to see to, but when you're ready ask again and I'll see if I can help some more.

Arthur

[Waitabit]

P.M. sent.

[Geoffers]

After initial excitement I found the 'calendar list' still not what I wanted. It gives every name no matter when born or married & pops up how old they'd be or how long married on the date I input, instead of just the events for that year.

If you haven't done so, do try the family historian user group (fhug) - it has a web-site which turns up easily with a seach engine. The site has a store of queries which can be downloaded and a forum to ask questions about how to do things.

[michaelpipe]

Legacy 7 Deluxe has a facility for such a search, providing a list for viewing all BMD's on a specific date. It's in the search panel under Detailed Search. All you have to do is create the search parameters.

[Waitabit]

Oh dear! Thanks again Geoffers & Michael, seems it would be rather more sense to indulge in the Legacy 7 Deluxe after all as I'm nearly there anyway.

Oh well back to the other stuff.