A Descendants Report

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Is there a way to generate a report that would include all this information? I tried to upload a file but it appears Im not allowed. This came from an old possibly dos program years ago.

Children of BENJAMIN CooK are:
i. WILLIAM2 COOK, b. 1730; d. 1801, Surry, Co. N.C …
ii. BENJAMIN COOK,JR., d. 1801, Elbert Co. Georgia; m. EFFIE JONES.
Generation No. 2
2. · WILLIAM 2 COOK (BENJAMIN 1) was born 1730, and died 1801 in Surry, Co. N.C … He married KEziAH BURCH
October 28, 1760 in St. Martin’s Parish, Louisa Co., VA., daughter ofTHOMAS BURCH and HANNAH CHEADLE. She died June 11, 1821 in Surry, Co. N.C … Children of WILLIAM CooK and KEziAH BURCH are:
i. SAMUEL 3 COOK, b. September 12, 1774; d. July 13, 1828, Jones, Co., Georgia
ii. DAVID COOK, b. Bet. 1755-1774; m. MARTHA BREWE~ December 29, 1791, Charlotte Co., VA

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In the following thread, a very similar look is achieved by changing some report options (and saving the settings as a “Book” so you can re-use those settings later)

Screen captures of the settings and the output are shown.

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This looks just like what I’m trying to accomplish with superscript generation numbering and details.

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Hello
I tried the instructions and this is what I got. This is the odt file. In pdf i got a lot of tab space. Your expertise would be greatly appreciated in this area before I input my entire geneology please. If you dont mind and have an email we could correspond. I am computer literate just no great at programming.

  1. Cook, Benjamin. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Son of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1758-04-08 in Hanover County VA. Died 1806-03-27 in Charlotte County VA.

  1. Cook, John. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Son of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah.

  1. Cook, William. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Son of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1755. Married Baker, Ann 1780-12-26 in Charlotte County VA.

  1. Cook, Elizabeth. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Daughter of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1774 - 1784. Married Shugart, John.

  1. Cook, Mary. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Daughter of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah.

  1. Cook, Hannah. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Daughter of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1760 - 1765 in Louisa County VA. Died 1884-09-13 in Pike County IL.

  1. Cook, Keziah. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Daughter of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1779 in Surry County NC. Died 1870 in Surry County NC. Married DeJarnett, Daniel.

  1. Cook, Frances. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)

Son of Cook, William and Burch, Keziah. Born 1775 - 1780 in VA. Died 1841 - 1842 in Marshall County MS.

  1. Cook, Sarah. (Cook, William-2; Cook, Benjamin-1)
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I’d rather keep discussions about customizing reports as public, not private. More contributors mean a better chance of progress. Publishing things learned in discussion while developing one report can be applied to others.

Please give no thought to whether the question appears ‘smart’. All clarifications are worthwhile.

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Ok my question is what do I need to add to get just first name with superscript numbering for generations. Also there appears to be a tab between some numbering and names and not others.

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Did you see my post on the superscript and formatting??

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I did.

And in another thread, I even have collected experimental code to build a pedigree breadcrumb from an ordered list of names with Smallcaps on non-redundant surnames, and superscripts for generations.

And elsewhere, Nick talks about styling text.

But I haven’t looked into how to have Gramps deliver the pedigree ordered list of names. Nor have I tried to put all the pieces together.

Since I haven’t gotten a simple tweak to add a “include ID” option to the Kinship Report through the PR merge process, I haven’t really put much time into this yet.

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OK thanks! I guess I will need to do some studying or maybe look at Family Tree Maker. I prefer open source but not very good at scripts & programming.

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Don’t give up too easily. I am not one of the code contributors. But even so, I can see these pieces are close to what is needed.