Well, I'm not quite sure what a kinship list is (as compared to a descendant list), but Randy Seaver asked us to create one for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, so I figured I would.
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1. Have you created a kinship list for any of your ancestors or relatives in your genealogy software program? If so, select an ancestor — say, one of your great-grandparents — and create a kinship list of all of that person's descendants. Or another ancestor further back in time.
2. Show us your work — how you did it, and the kinship list generated (at least one page of it).
3. Share a link to your blog post, or your Facebook Status post, on this post.
Okay, this is my effort.
I use Family Tree Maker 2019 as my primary genealogy software program. I decided to create a kinship report for my 3rd-great-grandfather Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky. I had no idea what to expect.
1. I navigated to my 3rd-great-grandfather Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky.
2. I clicked "Publish" on the top navbar.
3. I clicked "Relationship Reports", where I found "Kinship Report" as one of the options.
4. I clicked "Kinship Report."
5. By default it showed "immediate family" for "individuals to include." I clicked on "Selected Individuals" to see what my options were.
6. On the list that popped up, I chose Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky and Descendants of Gersh Wolf Gorodetsky (I was disappointed to read that Roots Magic actually uses the nonsense term "direct descendants" and am proud to say that my program does not; after all, just what is an "indirect" descendant?) and then clicked "Apply." It told me the list would be 397 individuals.
7. The program generated a nine-page list of names, birthdates, and relationships to Gersh Wolf. The names are in alphabetical order by last name, first name.
8. I clicked the icon for "Print" and saved the filed as a PDF.
So my process appears to have three fewer steps than Randy's does but is otherwise comparable. It does include birthdates, and Randy wished his included year ranges. Mine includes only descendants, though, while Randy's also includes spouses.
I didn't see much reason to include screenshots of the entire process, but here's the first page of my report.
I'm still not entirely sure, but I guess the difference between a descendant chart and a kinship list is that the kinship list states what the relationships are?
At least your report gives birthdate to help in identifying people, especially same-named people.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point I had not considered. I guess that isn't an option in Roots Magic?
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