Missing spouses in Family History Report

[Bill Sheridan]

Here’s the issue. In a family history report I want to include all spouses of my grandmother and grandfather, each of whom were twice married. After selecting the Family History Report command on the Create menu of Reunion 8.05, I then selected the Define Layouts command on the Layouts pull-down menu. For the particular layout, in the Settings column I selected Family Fields. Finally, when the third column displayed Family Fields I put marks in two check boxes: Marriage, and Divorce/Annulled/Separation. Saving these changes, I printed the report.

The result was the inclusion in the report of both wives for my grandfather and one husband (my grandfather) for my grandmother. The reason for this cannot be that Reunion excludes non-blood relatives from its family history report because my grandfather’s first wife, who was not my grandmother, was included in the report.

There must be a way of automatically producing a report that includes all spouses without having to resort to manually inserting the missing spouses into the final report. Have I missed a setting in Reunion that would accomplish the inclusion of all marriages in a family history report?

I welcome your comments and suggestions.

Bill

[Gregg]

...a way of automatically producing a report that includes all spouses without having to resort to manually inserting the missing spouses into the final report.Spouses are only listed for the people in the family history report that get numbered. In your case -- your grandfather is numbered in the first generation so only his other spouses are listed.

The solution is to continue manually entering the other spouse for your grandmother.

I'll add a feature request to address this.

[AE Palmer]

Perhaps this addition to the "Wish List" would be better somewhere else. But be as it may, I will ask it here as it is somewhat related to this topic.

It would be very nice to add all of the spouses to the tab list when viewing the "Ages" screen. I find it awkward having to exit the page and jump to the "other" spouse and then re-enter the Ages page. If each spouse of the lead card (usually male) were listed, the user could just click on the tab and go from there. If the user jumps to a spouse with more than one marriage, the list of tabs could be re-ordered to reflect that person's marriage history.