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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Create a Fact List in Your Genealogy Software

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1.  Does your genealogy management software (e.g, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, Reunion, Heredis, Family Historian, etc.) create a "Fact List" report (or something similar) - a list of the profiles in your family tree that have (or don't have) a specific Fact (e.g., birth, death, burial, immigration, etc.)?

2.  If so, run a Fact List to determine which people have a specific Fact (or don't have a specific Fact) and share it with us. 

3.  Share your results with us in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Leave a comment on this post with a link to your results.

Here's mine:

I use RootsMagic 7 as my genealogy management program of choice.  In the program, I can choose "Fact List" from the "Reports > Print a Report" screen:

On the "Fact List" report settings screen, I can choose the type of list that I want from the dropdown menu on the left of the settings screen:

I chose "People with this fact type."

Then I chose the Fact Type from the dropdown menu on the right on the settings screen:

I chose the "Burial" fact.

I can create the "Burial Fact" List by clicking on the "Generate Report" button.  Here is my list:


I received a 638 page report.  It took about 2 minutes to create this list.  Each page has between 20 and 40 names on it, so I can't tell exactly how many profiles I have with Burial Facts.  If the average page count is 30, then I have about 19,000, out of a tree with 59,200 people.  

I tried to create a Fact List for people with a Burial Fact for which I have a source citation, but the program was still running after 5 minutes so I stopped it.  

NOTE:  Creating lists like this, and other reports, is one of the benefits of using a genealogy management software program.  Most online family trees do not have this capability.  If you have only an online family tree, then you could download a GEDCOM file of your online tree, upload it to a genealogy management software program, and create lists, reports, charts, books, etc.

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7 comments:

  1. Here's my post about my FTM19 software:

    https://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2020/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-create.html

    Thanks to this post, Randy, now I have another project to do! Source my facts!

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  2. Here is my post. I need to definitely add more non-vital record facts to my database.

    https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2020/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-create.html

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  3. Here is my post.
    https://loiswillis.blog/2020/10/04/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-create-a-fact-list-in-your-genealogy-software/

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  4. Here's mine: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2020/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-111/

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  5. Following your clear instructions, I created a fact list of marriages and used it to focus my research on gaps in my genealogy research. Thanks for this great idea about using my genealogy software! https://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2020/10/fact-list-reveals-gaps-in-my-genealogy.html

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  6. Here's mine...I was surprised to discover that ONLY RM has this specific report...though Family Tree Analyzer can do the same thing, it's not the same as FTM, Legacy, etc...

    https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-fact-report-and-more/

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