Register Report
The register report will print all the information about all the descendants of a person and will optionally print an alphabetical index. If you intend to publish a book and use the register style report, you may set the output to go to a disk file in Rich Text Format and then use your word processor or a desktop publishing program to enhance the book. (To create a Rich Text Format file, set the options on the RTF tab and then pick File from the top menu and then pick "create RTF file." See more information about RTF here.)
The register report uses a numbering system where the first person is number one, and the children are numbers two, three, four and so on. Each person is given a number if they have children. If a person does not have children, they are not assigned a number unless you choose to print the "modified register system" (see below.) To see more information about a person who is listed as a child, look for the same number in the next generation. To see who a person's parents are, look for the same number in the previous generation. The names are printed one generation at a time. If you select the Modified register system, then everyone gets assigned a number, and people that have children are given a + in front of their number so that you know to look below for more information.
Children's names. Pick how you want the children's names to print the first time, if they will be printed more fully later. If a child has no children and will not be printed later, then the full name will print in any event.
Show lineage from each descendant back to starting person. This option will put after each descendant's name the name of the person's parent, grandparent, etc. back to the starting person in this report. Before each name in the lineage will be the register number of that person. After each name in the lineage will be a superscript number showing the generation of that person.
Label the generations. You may choose to have the header between the generations say "Second Generation" and "Third Generation" and so on, or you may choose to just have it say "Next Generation" each time. You may also choose to label the generations, but start each new generation on a new page, or you may choose to have it say "Next Generation" and have each new generation start on a new page.
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