Post by eric on Apr 21, 2014 11:34:56 GMT -5
Hello Howard,
I have used PAW2U for a number of years to record the research done on my family tree. I am now getting to the stage where I have 7 generations. I developed a way of displaying a persons ancestors in excel. I can pick any person in the 'database' and the pedigree is displayed from there. I was able to get an export from another program that made it easy to do this. However the 'free time' available for this program is limited and I have a family project in mind.
I looked at using 'Events for Tagged People' but it returns a row for each event. This results in an unpredictable number of data rows for a person because I don't have the date of death for example (or they are living). There are further complications because if I want to get a spouse name I have to include the Marriage event. I started working on a way of parsing the data into a single row but am getting bogged down in formulas. The output of multiple rows per person also duplicates columns unnecessarily.
I hope you would consider an enhancement to export Events as a single row per person with a selection screen for events. Would you also not use '(unknown)' in the parents name columns. I am very happy with PAW2U and am trying to get past this impasse. I am building the spreadsheet and other material for a family reunion and fact gathering exercise during the summer. The spreadsheet is very accessible for family members who don't have Macs.
Many thanks for your consideration.
Eric
I have used PAW2U for a number of years to record the research done on my family tree. I am now getting to the stage where I have 7 generations. I developed a way of displaying a persons ancestors in excel. I can pick any person in the 'database' and the pedigree is displayed from there. I was able to get an export from another program that made it easy to do this. However the 'free time' available for this program is limited and I have a family project in mind.
I looked at using 'Events for Tagged People' but it returns a row for each event. This results in an unpredictable number of data rows for a person because I don't have the date of death for example (or they are living). There are further complications because if I want to get a spouse name I have to include the Marriage event. I started working on a way of parsing the data into a single row but am getting bogged down in formulas. The output of multiple rows per person also duplicates columns unnecessarily.
I hope you would consider an enhancement to export Events as a single row per person with a selection screen for events. Would you also not use '(unknown)' in the parents name columns. I am very happy with PAW2U and am trying to get past this impasse. I am building the spreadsheet and other material for a family reunion and fact gathering exercise during the summer. The spreadsheet is very accessible for family members who don't have Macs.
Many thanks for your consideration.
Eric
