Birthday / Anniversary
When you pick Lists and then Birthday/anniversary from the menu on the main screen, you can create a birthday and/or anniversary list of everyone in your database, or selected people. If this report does not turn out correctly, be sure you have the Options set correctly for your date type.
If you want to only include selected people, click the button for Ancestors or Descendants or Individual. Enter the name of the starting person. It will select that group and show the number of selected people at the bottom. You can continue to select more people by clicking on the white name area and picking another name. It will keep adding more people to the selected group. When you have everyone you want selected, then click Print or Preview for the report.
To print the report, pick File and then Print or to display the report pick File and then Preview.
If you do not have Calendar Creator, you can pick File, Calendar and Brother's Keeper can print a calendar.
If you do have the Calendar Creator program from Softkey® (any version since 1995) you can create a file to import into Calendar Creator by picking File and then Make Calendar Creator file. It will make a file called BIRTHCC.CSV in your data folder. Then you can run Calendar Creator and pick File, Open, and change the "files of type" box to "comma separated variables" and change the folder to the folder that contains your BK data files. Then select the BIRTHCC.CSV file. It will then shows the columns of names and dates with the word "unassigned" above each column. Click the word "unassigned" above the names, and then pick "event description". Then click the word "unassigned" above the dates and then pick "start date" and select the date format that is used. The other columns do not need to be assigned. Click OK to import the dates. Note that the year will be the current year unless it is July or later, and then it will be the following year. If it is a calendar for the following year, then at the bottom of Calendar Creator, click the arrow to advance to the next period to get to that year. After you import the file, the names should show on the correct dates on the calendar.