surnames of male-relatives-by-marriage

[juadro]

Can I query my Reunion8 database in order to List the surnames of those who have joined-the-family-tree's-branches by marriage? Then I'll have a 'checklist' to keep in mind when I research, e.g., Ancestry.com's collection of census records - assuming, by now, I remember the surnames of the Family Tree's main characters.
I'm afraid the answer is, simply go through the Index and place appropriate check marks! Or, let me ask it this way: Is there an easy way to make a list of all surnames only?
Right now, I'm wishing I'd have the rights to delete this message - I'm not sure brain is working.

[David G. Kanter]

Can I query my Reunion8 database in order to List the surnames of those who have joined-the-family-tree's-branches by marriage?How about if you go to the Family Card at the top of the tree (or the branch) for which you want to do that. [As juadro (Robert Steuer) points out in his later post, you need then to set the calculated Relationships to a person on that top-of-the-tree/branch card—which you do with Find->Relatives->Identify.] Then do Find->Mark Groups (or use the keyboard shortcut of Cmd(Apple)-M)->Mark. Choose "People Related to…" and just the option "Unmark Everybody First". Click Mark. Then do a Find->Anything (or keyboard Cmd(Apple)-A) with the conditions: <# of Marked Spouses> <More Than> <0> AND <Relationship> <Is> <> [meaning you leave that last field empty] AND <Sex> <Is> <male>. When you click Find, I would expect that will list only those you are looking for. (If my logic is in error, I hope another reader will jump in to correct things.)

In that list, you can chose up to 8 additional columns of information to go along with the first 2 columns (which will be determined by the Sort choice you make—which, presumably, would be one of those from the 1st set of choices involving Last Name; not from the set involving Married Name). One of those additional columns can be "Spouse". Caution: If the person has more than one spouse, Reunion will show you the name of whichever spouse you have designated as "Preferred" (which can be changed in the Edit Spouses window); therefore, you may want to include "# of Spouses" as one of the columns in the list to give you an indication (by a number greater than 1) that another spouse's name applies, too. You can then click the "Report" button to make a report of the information in the Found List.

Or, let me ask it this way: Is there an easy way to make a list of all surnames only?If you still want it limited to just those males who "married in", when you do the Report described above, in the List Report window, enable the "Include Tabs Between Fields" and chose a Destination of "Plain Text File". You could open the resulting file in a spreadsheet program and with some manipulation there, eliminate multiple occurences of the same Last Name—and then just print out that simplified Last Name list. (If you literally meant all surnames—as opposed to just those males who married into the family—open the Index, choose the Sort you want, and do a Report from it.)

[juadro]

David, First I had to make that person the 'source person' - how come such a basic element of Reunion8 is such a criptic topic!!! - that only took about a half hour of researching the archives of ReunionTalk after I gave up on the manual.:eek:
Also, you'll notice, since I could, I changed the title of my post, but, I wasn't able to change the topic of the thread [which I deeply regret]. I really did not want to focus on males, but, both genders.
Anyway, I got your drift and ended up with the kind of list I was looking for. I can't prove it is thorough, but, I can vouch that it does not include any (almost) of the surnames of my main characters. Furthermore, I don't care if additional columns come along for the ride after that all important first column of related-by-marriage surnames.
:)
Robert Steuer

[David G. Kanter]

David, First I had to make that person the 'source person'… You're absolutely correct; I left out that step. Sorry about that. (I've edited my earlier reply post to acknowledge my omission.)
how come such a basic element of Reunion8 is such a criptic topic!!! - that only took about a half hour of researching the archives of ReunionTalk after I gave up on the manualAs your interest was with regard to finding the relatives and you were using the Mark Groups window, a search of the Manual for either "relatives" (#1 find is "Relationships, Identifying All The Relatives of Somebody") or "mark groups" (#1 find is "Marking, Marking Groups of People"—and for the option I had suggested there's a hot link in the discussion for the word "relationship") would get you to the explanation of setting the relationships. (A click on the "?" on the Mark Groups window would also have gotten you on the path.)

But, most important, I'm glad to hear that the general approach worked to get you what you wanted.