Is it possible to mark an individual from Charts / Reports

RootsMagic
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Hi all,

I’ve not been able to find an answer within this forum so I’d like to pose a question regarding Descendant Reports.

I have just installed RM11 and wish to create a Descendant report for my brother.

There was a separation between one of his children and their spouse and he is asking if it is possible to omit the (now separated) spouse from the Descendant Chart.

There are children from this union so I suggested it would not tell the full story but it does beg the question.. Is it possible to mark an individual such that they are ‘not’ included in a Report / Chart but that their details still remain in the database?

BTW: Thumbs up to the RM Team for RM11 :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance,

Cheers, Frank vG

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You could UNlink her from your brother temporarily for the report. Then relink her afterwards.
Don’t delete her.

I think the children will show up in the report with a “missing” or “unknown” mother.

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Not as simple as just marking something.

Add an Alternate Name fact - replicate the name data to it - set the Name type to Birth

Click/highlight the Birth fact - click/change Fact type (in pane to the right) to Alternate Birth

Delete Surname - Change Given to something like Children’s Mother/Birth Mother/Spouse/whatever

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I think that would work. However, it would also delete any family facts involving her such as Marriage and Divorce, so repairing your database after running the report might not be so easy as just relinking her. When I need to run a report that involves first deleting some data from my database, I make a copy of the database. I think of the copy as a reporting database. I delete whatever data I need to delete in the reporting database, I run my reports, and I delete my reporting database. That way, I don’t have to do anything after running the reports to restore my production database.

I said it would work, but I haven’t tested. You might have delete her instead unlinking her in the reporting database. You would need to be sure that the family structure remains intact so that the children still show up in the report. Whether it’s the unlink that works best or the delete that works the best, you would need to still have a family with a father and children and with a blank slot for the mother. The mother slot still has to be there. It just needs to be empty.

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Hi all,

Thank you for for the suggestions.

On balance I think I might just tell my brother that things have to stay as they are because it helps tell the full story.

The reason behind this is that I’m hesitant to break something in my database. However, the suggestion of replicating the database to for the use of reporting is a good idea.

The other thought I had was to add the text “(Separated during 20xx)” after the first name so it shows as such on the Descendant Chart.

Cheers..