Printing a Descendants List of specific generation

RootsMagic
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I am one of 29 grandchildren on my father’s side. I would like to print the equivalent of a descendants List of just that generation.
If I print a descendants List using my grandfather as the root, my grandfather is generation one, my father and his siblings are generation two. I would like to print a Descendants List starting with generation three, which is myself and my 28 first cousins and our descendants.
Is this possible?

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The easiest way is probably just to run the report with all generations, save the report to a file, and then edit the file report to delete the first two generations.

It would be possible to create a group consisting of the third generation and their descendants. You could the create an Individual List or Individual Summary report of this group. You could also create a Custom report of this group. But none of these reports would be organized by generation and by descendants. The only way I can think of to have the report you want organized by generation and descendants is to create a descendant report for all generations and then delete the first two generations from the report.

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wow that’s impressive.
Jerry offer some solutions. Another option would be using Sqlite with CTE recursive query to ignore first 2 levels (or what was needed) and create a group from that query.
(you would need to run it outside of RM to update if/when new people were added.

Kevin

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You can create a group for this set of people pretty easily from within RM without needing to create an SQLite query. The problem then would still be how to make a descendant report from the group.

To create the group from within RM, mark descendants of the grandfather or grandmother without spouses for 20 generations (or some large number) and immediately unmark descendants without spouses for 2 generations. The people remaining marked would be each of the 29 grandchildren and all the descendants of all the 29 grandchildren.

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Thank you both for your answers. For now, I just brute forced it by doing the standard Descendants List and editing out the first two generations. But I like the idea of creating a group and will try that when I get a chance.