I’ve just done a Narrative Report for a relative but discovered that his first marriage, divorce and second marriage do not appear in the report but everything else does. Advise please
Search the PDF or Document (with a text viewer or editor) for the entire phrase:
BOMO ROB and
(of course, use the relative’s name not yours)
There’ll be two instances of that phrase per marriage fact.
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If it was an ancestor narrative report starting with him then it won’t show his marriage and family facts.
As Renee already asked, was this an Ancestor Narrative report or a Descendant Narrative report? And if a Descendant Narrative report, was he a principal person (a person in the line of the ancestor), or was he a spouse of a principal?
It’s an Ancestor Narrative report. I’ll reply to rzamor1 with more info but having found earlier queries on this issue I’m going to assume that “marriages” etc will not appear.
After raising this query I did locate earlier mentions that seemed to indicate that for some reason when creating an Ancestral Narrative report starting with the principal person, marriage details will not appear. RM didn’t resolve (or care?) about this. Until one or more of you learned persons come up with a better idea, I decided to create a Miscellaneous fact using the dates of the marriage/divorce/marriage 2 and, Lo and behold, the info then appeared in the narrative report. Clumsy but acceptable for my needs.
I am surprised that this problem exists. When I or a relative die and the family ask about their ancestry, they wont have access to my RM file, may not have a subscription with Ancestry, but if there’s a printout of a Narrative report amongst the family papers that doesn’t include marriage details, eyebrows will be raised. If, as happened before, I’m missing something then please let me know before I go too far in adding Misc. facts.
I haven’t got a clue about how to react to what you are suggesting.
It has just got through to my old brain that the principal’s marriage details are nothing to do with his ancestors. My apologies to RM and those who offered advice.
OK, let me try a different way. RootsMagic builds a Narrative report by using its Sentence template language to fashion sentences about each entered fact using the entered details of that fact. The result can be rather dense text and sometimes hard to locate key info. So, for Marriage it uses the Sentence template of that fact type. My example has a mish mash of templating. Yours may have something different:
You should check there first to ensure it has an entry, because there would be no sentence generated about Marriage facts in the Narrative report if not configured. (same for Divorce).
If there is a sentence template entered, then the report will have Marriage sentences appear throughout the report for couples. Those sentences for couples’ marriages, typically, are of the form … John Doe and Jane Ray were married on 2 July 1925 in East Holler, Podunk, West Virginia.
The key here is that there will be common text for those Marriage facts in the sentences of the report. Basically, they will be
- the couple ( So AndSo and Such AndSuch)
- the phrase (were married)
So be looking for those when scanning the report. If there is a Marriage fact-type sentence configured and you’ve entered Marriage data, it’s guaranteed to be somewhere in the report.
Thanks Kevin,
You’ll have seen that I realised that I was looking for something that couldn’t exist in an Ancestral Narrative. My method of adding a Misc. fact did solve the immediate issue for my relative and I’ve since discovered the Individual Summary report very useful. I have spent many years searching for the family facts without bothering until now how to produce the reports. I live and learn.
I do thank you for attempting to assist me.
Robin Almond
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