tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post5172815430262276825..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Searching for birth dates in softwareRandy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-89034918437359656542008-06-13T01:18:00.000-07:002008-06-13T01:18:00.000-07:00PAF and Ancestral Quest have a birthday calendar, ...PAF and Ancestral Quest have a birthday calendar, but you can also create a custom report to get just one date. Here's how to do it in PAF, doing it in AQ is practically identical. <BR/>Choose Custom Report, and then the Select Button to bring up the "Advanced Focus/Filter" dialog box . In there you can define and combine your search criteria. Add BirthDate to the still empty Filter, choose "Contains" and enter the birth date you want without a year, e.g. "11 Apr". Then add another for Marriage date, with an OR in between. The "Current Filter" box will show:<BR/><BR/> Birth Date Contains 11 Apr<BR/> OR<BR/> Marriage Date Contains 11 Apr<BR/><BR/>That's all there is to it.<BR/>Well, don't forget to pick some fields for the report, e.g. Full Name, Birth Date and Birth Place. You can save the report for later use. PAF performs the selection pretty fast; on a 100k INDI database, report generation about 10 seconds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-22614457277983621022008-06-12T05:08:00.000-07:002008-06-12T05:08:00.000-07:00you said in the first post: I thought it would be ...you said in the first post: I thought it would be a neat idea to make a list of the ancestors who have specific birth days - you know, who was born on 10 June, or married on 10 July. <BR/>As far as I can tell, FamilyTreeMaker 16 can't do this. I've looked at Custom Reports, Calendars, Sorts, etc. The closest I can come is a Calendar for a specific year that shows the age of persons in my database that are alive at the time.<BR/>and I told you how to run a calendar showing living and deceased birthdays and anniversarys for any given month<BR/>then you replied to me: I tried this in FTM 16, and could input only one specific year in the Year field. I don't think FTM 16 and before can do what I want.<BR/>so Im confused as to what you what? You mention only being able to pick one year but you initially said you wanted to know who was born on the same DAY? If you use the current year in the calendar option and uncheck living only and run it say for July, you will get a calendar page showing everyone that was born (or married if you choose annversaries) on every day of that month regardless of what year it was.<BR/>If you are wanting to know who was born in a certain year, then no FTM wont do it as far as I know, but on a certain day...yes its entirely possibleShannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10980923620174716273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-71118567705064103062008-06-11T17:53:00.000-07:002008-06-11T17:53:00.000-07:00I did a blog post inspired by you!It is at http://...I did a blog post inspired by you!<BR/>It is at http://is.gd/vuoTaneyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12467750664253689462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-45231585867237886182008-06-11T14:16:00.000-07:002008-06-11T14:16:00.000-07:00The easiest way to do it with RootsMagic is to cre...The easiest way to do it with RootsMagic is to create the birthday list and save it to file. Then open the file and save just the dates you want. <BR/><BR/>You could also do the birthday list and choose select individuals, choose Select Individuals, then click Create. You then will see a list of everyone in your database. If you click on Find, you can have the report find only people born on a certain date. It's a little clunky as you have to mark each individual separately and it wasn't always accurate (search contains 1 Jan brought up 21 Jan as well). You might try it out to see if it does what you need.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13311557694307825428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-53836570216570642532008-06-11T11:05:00.000-07:002008-06-11T11:05:00.000-07:00I posted this earlier but don't think Randy say it...I posted this earlier but don't think Randy say it before he did this post.<BR/><BR/>Brothers Keeper will do this. You use the "word search" capability. You can enter criteria in most all data base fields and it will give you a list of the people matching the criteria. I did a search on "17 Feb" this morning and found all the folks in my db I share a birth date with.<BR/><BR/>I have used this capability before to create lists such as what people are buried in the same cemetery or state where folks born, etc.lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259663873584702921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-17349124886564391722008-06-11T10:19:00.000-07:002008-06-11T10:19:00.000-07:00You said "I thought it would be a neat idea to mak...You said "I thought it would be a neat idea to make a list of the ancestors who have specific birth days - you know, who was born on 10 June, or married on 10 July." <BR/><BR/>I think now that you want a list and not a calendar but you might be able to make a list from the calendar. Because the calendar setting in Rootsmagic will do most of what you want which is some way to know everyone who shares the same birthday or anniversary and RootsMagic can do that. Turn off show only living, turn off give age, and on a month to month basis the calendar will list everyone with a birthday on the same day. I know from reading your blog that you have a super deluxe FHC that you use and a free version of the newest RootsMagic should be available to test drive there.Breezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630312620065479389noreply@blogger.com