Originally posted by Howard Fink
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My approach is to put everyone that is remotely connected all into one BIG file.
Then I fully support the earlier suggestion of doing some selections for whatever purpose and then Marking those people. Then any report or chart or book is restricted to the marked people only.
If you are going to make the same selection more than once, it is quicker to make and use a Flag to re-select that bunch of people. A favourite chart is All Executed Ancestors. I have made an Executed flag to permanently mark both all the executed people and the lines of descent I wish to show on the chart. So to remake the Chart I just select everyone with the Executed flag set and pus the button to get the right chart.
Another flag that could be useful is 'Incomplete Research'. Just set this flag for all the people whose research is not finished and needs to be excluded from your chart or report. Then select the people for the report and remove those whose Flag is set on Research Incomplete.
These are the features that Reunion has always had (ever since I started using it in the late 1990s) and make it so easy to report on and communicate precisely the people you need to include.
PS: lest you wonder, I have 44 executed ancestors.
PPS: You must keep lots of backups of your BIG file, one day it will get corrupted: Murphy's Law.
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