Addon:Lines of Descendency Report

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All sample reports that are shown are created using Gramps Data.gramps file

People tab options

Lines of Descendency Report - example

The Lines of Descendency report prints out all lines of descendency between a given ancestor and a given descendent one after the other in the format shown below (using the Gramps example data). People on the left build the continuous ancestral line and those on the right are their corresponding spouses.

Usage

You can access the report from the following menu Report > Text Reports > Lines of Descendency Report...

From the reports People tab select the Ancestor and Descendent using the Select a different person buttons.

Example output

                    '''Lines of Descendency from Smith, Ingeman to Smith, Craig Peter'''

 '''1. line:'''

 1. Smith, Ingeman m. Ericsdotter, Marta
 2. Smith, Martin m. Jefferson, Elna
 3. Smith, Martin m. Hansdotter, Kerstina
 4. Smith, Gustaf Sr. m. Hansdotter, Anna
 5. Smith, Hans Peter m. Jones, Lillie Harriet
 6. Smith, Lloyd m. Green, Janis Elaine
 7. Smith, Craig Peter

 '''2. line:'''

 (...)

Notice that even though the example data of Gramps does not offer a possibility to display this, the report makes no distinction between the male and female line. So a hypothetical output such as the one below is also proper:

                    '''Lines of Descendency from Smith, Ingeman to Nielsen, Augusta'''

 '''1. line:'''

 1. Smith, Ingeman m. Ericsdotter, Marta
 2. Smith, Martin m. Jefferson, Elna
 3. Smith, Martin m. Hansdotter, Kerstina
 4. Smith, Margareth m. Green, Hans Gustaf
 5. Green, Peter Lloyd m. Jones, Elisabeth
 6. Green, Anna Maria m. Nielsen, Edwin
 7. Nielsen, Augusta

 '''2. line:'''

 (...)

Development ideas

• Add option for including events, birth, death and marriage.
• Add option to include sources.

• Outdated original code File:Lines-of-descendency.tar.gz from 2009-10-23

Issues

• Help button goes to https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports#Lines_of_Descendency_Report