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Report Programs

This is an overview of the report programs distributed with Lifelines. If you want more information about a program, often there are comments at the beginning of the program that talk about functionality and algorithms, that have sample output and examples of post processing commands required to properly view the results. Some programs require customization before use, for example, they might have text identifying the person who generated the report.

2ppage
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 80 cols.
It will produce a report of all INDI's in the database, with two records printed per page. Record 1 and 2 will be on the first page.
4gen1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 80 cols.
select and produce a ancestor report for the person selected. Output is an ASCII file, and will probably need to be printed using 10 or 12 pitch.
6gen1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 80 cols.
select and produce a 6 generation ancestor report for the person selected. Output is an ASCII file, and will probably need to be printed using 10 or 12 pitch.
8gen1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 132 cols.
Produce an 8 generation descendant report for the person selected. Output is an ASCII file, and will probably need to be printed using 132 column format.
addsour
Version 1.0; by Stephen Dum; output format Modifies Database.
This script prompts for a message and adds the message along with todays date as a Source record on each individual and Family in the database. It checks to see if the source already exists, and allows you to skip or replace an existing source record. Warning, this script modifies your database, making a backup of your data before running this script is advised.
af-import
Version 4.12; by baud@research.att.com; output format GedCom.
convert ancestral-file gedcom to lifelines-standard gedcom
afn_match
Version 1.0 of 1995-08-25; by Scott McGee; output format Text.
Find individuals with matching Ancestral File numbers, report matches.
ahnenliste
Version 6; by Jim Eggert; output format Text.
Generate an Ahnenliste, an ancestral report for an individual
ahnentafel
Version 1; by Wetmore; output format Text.
Generate an ahnentafel chart for the selected person.
alive
Version 6; by Jim Eggert; output format Text.
This report program is for finding people living in a given year. This finds who in the database, or among ancestors or descendants of an individual, was likely alive in a certain year. Good for looking at population snapshots like censuses, tax rolls, etc.
all_anc_lines
Version 2; by Tom Wetmore; output format Text.
report all ancestral lines in a Register-like format
allfam10c
Version 1.1; by Cliff Manis, Jim Eggert; output format Text.
Display all families in the DB, 1 per page.
alllines
Version 1.1; by Wetmore, Nozell; output format SGML, NROFF.
This program shows all ancestral lines of a specified person using a pseudo-Register format.
altern
Version 2.0; by Rafal T. Prinke; output format Text.
find the longest line of alternating male/female links
anc2_ged
Version 1.0; by Dennis Nicklaus; output format GedCom.
make a gedcom file of the ancestors of a set of individuals
ancestors2
Version 2.0; by Wetmore, Cliff Manis; output format Text.
It will produce a report of all ancestors of a person, with sorted names as output, birth and death dates.
anniver
Version 4.0; by Stephen Dum; output format HTML; char encoding ASCII.
Generate calendar of birth, death, marriage events arranged by the month and day that they occurred. Generates a top level index calendar, with actual events stored in a separate html file for each month. Some properties must be set in your lifelines configuration file for this report to run, see comments at beginning of the report for details.
bday_cover
Version 1 of 1994-11-02; by Andrew Deacon; output format Text.
A novelty report that lists on which days of the year people were born and how many people share the same birthday. All valid birthdays are considered. A valid birthday is one where the extracted birthday, performed using extractdate(), has a month in the range 1-12 and a day within that month.
bias
Version 1.4; by Chandler; output format Text.
Ever notice that certain families seem to have all boys or all girls? Sometimes five or six in a row of all the same sex? Is this a mere statistical fluctuation, or is something special happening? This program gives statistics for male vs female births.
bkdes16-1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
It will produce a report of all descendents of a person, and is presently designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III. This report produces an ASCII file, in output format.
book-latex
Version 3.1; by Nicklaus; output format LaTeX.
Generates really spiffy register reports for formatting with LaTex. Reports read like a book. Includes source citation, footnotes, etc. Register reports are either descendant or ancestor/ahnentafel style.
browser
Version 1.0; by Prinke; output format onscreen.
browsing via all kinds of links, especially in non-standard or experimental GEDCOM structures
burial_index
Version 1.0; by Nicklaus; output format Text.
Write an (unsorted) list of every person in the database whose burial place contains a requested string (which is the "town" that this report asks for). It matches for the town anywhere in the place field. so town can also be a state or county. Personally, many of my relatives are from Iowa, so I like to make a file of everyone buried in Iowa by entering Iowa to the prompt.
BW_descendants
Version 1.00; by Birger Wathne; output format Text.
List successors with notes
cid
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Chandler; output format Text.
Generates Pete Cook's CID (Chronological Identifier) for a person in a LifeLines database.
connect2
Version 2.1; by Simms; output format Text.
Describes the family line connecting an ancestor/descendant
common
Version 0 of 1996-06-11; by H. Väisänen; output format Text.
Show common ancestors of a person.
cons
Version 1.0; by Teschler; output format Text.
Calculates coefficient of inbreeding F(A,B) for the offspring of two individuals A and B.
cont
Version 1.0; by Väisänen; output format Text.
This program iterates over all persons and families in a database and reports all records that have erroneous CONT lines.
count_dup
Version 1.0; by anon; output format Text.
Count dups among ancestors?
count_anc
Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program counts ancestors of a person by generation. Only unique individuals in each generation are counted. A person counts in all the generations he/she is in, but only counts once in the grand total.
count_desc
Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program counts descendants of a person by generation. Only unique individuals in each generation are counted. A person counts in all the generations he/she is in, but only counts once in the grand total.
count_paternal_desc
Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program counts paternal descendants of a person by generation. Only unique individuals in each generation are counted. A person counts in all the generations he/she is in, but only counts once in the grand total. Male paternal descendants are also counted separately.
cousins
Version 6.0; by Wetmore; output format Text.
Finds the relationship between two persons in a LifeLines database. If there is no common ancestor, the program will attempt to find a sequence of genetic relations that link the two persons.
coverage
Version 4; by Wetmore, Woodbridge, Eggert; output format Text.
Display percentage of ancestors of each generation discovered
cron
Version 4.0; by Stephen Dum; output format HTML; char encoding ASCII.
Generate calendar of birth, death, marriage events arranged by the year, month and day that they occurred. Generates a top level index by year, with actual events stored in a separate html file for each decade. Some properties must be set in your lifelines configuration file for this report to run, see comments at beginning of the report for details.
dates
Version 4; by Eggert; output format Text.
Prints out the value of all the lines in your database with the DATE tag, along with enough information so you can find the line easily. The purpose of this report is so you can sort all the dates in the database, so you can look for illegal dates, make birthday lists, etc. The dates are printed in the order that they appear in the database, Output can then be sorted if this is more useful than the native form.
db_summary
Version 1; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program gives you summary statistics on your database. It calculates the number of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial events, and gives the distribution over centuries of birth/baptisms, death/burials, and marriages. It tells you how many different names (given names and surnames separately) there are in the database, and how many persons have no surname in the database.
desc-henry
Version 8; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program prints out a descendants report, assigning a d'Aboville, Henry, modified Henry, or modern Henry code to the individuals. The chosen ancestor, and all of his/her spouses, descendants, and descendants' spouses are included in the report.
desc_ged
Version 1; by Nicklaus; output format Text.
Generate gedcom of descendents. For specified set of individuals for specified # of generations down from the top individuals. (e.g. name all your great-grandparents for all of your close cousins in one gedcom file)
descged
Version 2000-07; by Tom Wetmore, Cliff Manis, and Chris Eagle; output format Text.
The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: all descendents of a named individual all spouses of the named indivdual spouses of all descendents of the named individual (i.e. this program looks only down the tree, never up)
desc_html
Version 1.4; by Dick Knowles, Scott McGee, anon; output format HTML.
This program is designed to be used in a cgi based genweb site to produce a descendant chart for a specified individual. It is based on the desc-tree program by Dick Knowles as modified by Scott McGee. A line is printed for every spouse and child including name, database key number, birth, marriage, and death information.
desc-tree
Version 8; by Dick Knowles, knowles@inmet.camb.inmet.com; output format Text.
This report prints a descendant tree for an individual. A line is printed for every spouse and child including name, database key number, birth, marriage, and death information. The user can set the number of generations or they can all be done (up to a maximum of 20). The user can also, optionally, include step children and family database numbers. There are two slightly different output styles, tree and numbered. Here are examples of each:
drep2
Version 2.1; by Robert Simms; output format Text.
Produces an indented report on an individual's families and all descendant families. Details on individuals include NOTE lines, once. Line wrapping is done with indention maintained.
d-rtf
Version 1.1 of 2000-06-11; by Paul Buckley; output format RTF.
This report will produce a document in Rich Text Format modeled after some typewritten and typeset Henry format genealogies I've seen. All descendants of a selected person, their spouses and their spouses parents, event dates, and NOTEs are included. I generally reserve TEXT items for comments I would prefer not to export.
dump-ances
Version 1992-11; by Stephen Woodbridge; output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's ancestors and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. It is a simple program that is easy to make changes to, if you want more or less info printed. I have included three date routines get_dates(), get_sdates(), and get_ldates for variations in the amount of event info that gets output to the file. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The ">>>>" marker on a child signifies the line of descent.
dump_html
Version 1.3; by Scott McGee; output format HTML.
dump_html.ll is designed to dump an entire database to static HTML files.
dump_html_sd
Version 1.0; by Scott McGee, Steve Dum; output format HTML.
dump_html_sd.ll dumps an entire database to static HTML files.
eol
Version 4 of 1995-01; by Tom Wetmore and John Chandler; output format Text, 80 cols.
Say you want to know who all of your end-of-line ancestors are, that is, your direct ancestors whose parents you have not yet discovered; these are the people most of us spend most of our time on researching. Here is a program that will produce the list. Any ancestor will be listed at most once, even in cases where lines cross. Each person is shown with date and place of birth and death -- a "guess" is made for the year of birth if it is not known.
est_life_span
Version none; by Rafal Prinke; output format Text.
The program below finds the widest possible span of life, estimating the uncertain and some unknown dates on the basis of user defined values in the table for various combinations of date modifiers etc. Then it compares the midpoints of this with midpoints of others' life spans and if they fall within a user defined range, the two are considered "possibly identical". This is actually just one procedure of several that should be in a program like that - but perhaps the most important one as people may change names, occupations, etc. but they cannot change the time period. I added two arbitrary tags: FAPP and LAPP for "first/last appearance" in sources.
extract_gedcom
Version 1.2 of 1995-08-27; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format GEDCOM.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a GEDCOM file for them. It allows selection of multiple people by following family links, and then allows addition of all ancestors of the selected set or of the first individual, and then all descendants of the selected set or of the orignal individual. It also allows addition of all persons with a specified number of relations to any individual in any of the groups added above.
extract_html
Version 1.4; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format HTML.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a set of HTML files for them. It allows writing multiple people per HTML file, and will create an index file and a GENWEB.txt file for genweb indexing of the resulting data.
fam10c
Version 1.0; by Manis; output format Text.
Generates a Family Report for one family.
fam16rn1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
This program produces a family report of the person (husband), wife, their children, and some data about the children's marriages. It is presently designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, printing a single page of information about that family.
fam_ged
Version 1.1 of 1994-06-08; by Wetmore and Prinke; output format GEDCOM.
This program extracts a gedcom file of all male line descendants of a specified person, with their spouses and parents (including those of the specified person and of all spouses). Also included are possibly illegitimate children of females - when they have the same surname as the mother but different than the father (also if there is no father recorded).
famgroup
Version 1.1; by Kris Stanton ; output format TeX.
Family Group Sheet for LifeLines
fami-grps
Version 1993-01-12; by Stephen Woodbridge (woodbri@swoodbridge.com); output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's families and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The "*" marker on a child signifies the line of descent/ascent.
familycheck
Version 2000-03-02; by Dennis Nicklaus nicklaus@fnal.gov; output format Text, 80 cols.
Consistency checks between indi records and family records (making sure links between kids and spouses go both ways.) make sure each family that a person says he is a spouse of has him as a spouse, and, vice-versa, make sure each person that a family says is a spouse thinks he is a spouse of that family It also checks when a person says he is a child in a family that the family has that person as a child. And vice-versa, that every child in a family thinks he is a child of that family.
familyisfm1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 132 cols.
It will produce a report of all the INDI's in the database, in the format as seen at end of report. May be sorted easily to see the Father or Mother column sorted report. The report name come from: isfm (Indi Spouse Father Mother) It is designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, 132 column (ASCII output).
famrep
Version 6.3; by James P. Jones (jjones@nas.nasa.gov); output format nroff.
This report program produces a Family Group Sheet for the selected individual, with options for generating sheets for married children of the individual, and their children, etc.
famtree1
Version 2; by James P. Jones, jjones@nas.nasa.gov; output format PostScript.
This report builds a postscript ancestry chart, a "tree", containing data on five generations. It prompts for the individual to begin with and draws the tree including this person. The further from this person the less data is printed. Maximum data include: o date and place of birth o date and place of marriage o date and place of death o last place of residence o spouses of person #1 (up to five) as well as: o name, address, phone number and e-mail address of compiler o date of chart
fileindex
Version 1999; by Dennis Nicklaus; output format HTML.
I have lines on indi's in my database which look like: 1 NOTE FILE: BIOGRAPHY $FAMHIST/matthews/alkire.bio or maybe OBITUARY, MARRIAGE, WILL, NEWS ... instead of BIOGRAPHY. and the lowercase letters (matthews/alkire.bio in this example) will change to reflect the location of the file in question.
fdesc
Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format GEDCOM.
this funny little program is based on Tom Wetmore's "genancc1" and generates a GEDCOM file with descendants of a chosen individual who have the same surname (usually this means male line descendants plus illegitimate children of daughters) plus their spouses.
find
Version 2.1; by Prinke, Perry Rapp; output format GUI.
This utility finds all persons whose records contain a specified TAG and VALUE and displays the resulting list as a menu.
findmissing
Version 1.0; ; output format Text.
find persons that are 'isolated' in your database - no parents and not in any families..
fix_nameplac
Version 1; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This is a quicky to show how to fix name and place spacing.
formatted_gedcom
Version 1; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This program outputs a LifeLines database in modified GEDCOM format. Two additions to GEDCOM are made: an inter-record delimiter and a level indenter. These are set up as global parameters and initialized at the beginning of the main() procedure.
gedall
Version 2000-02-20; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
This LifeLines report program produces a GEDCOM file containing the entire LifeLines database, including header, trailer, and submitter records. It also gives the option to keep or remove user defined tags, and to remove any other tags.
gedlist
Version 1.1; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
gedlist.ll generates a GEDCOM file for the male line of the input individuals.
gedlod
Version 2000-02-15; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
Generate a GEDCOM file of a person's descent from an ancestor. The GEDCOM file will contain the following: all descendents of the ancestor who are ancestors of descendant, as well as the ancestor and descendant themselves.
gedn
Version none; by anon; output format GEDCOM.
The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: N generations of ancestors, all spouses and all children of these ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself
gedtags
Version 2001-06-28; by Paul B.McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format Text.
produces a unique list of all tags used in the database listed like the following: INDI INDI.BIRT INDI.BIRT.DATE INDI.BIRT.PLAC ...
genancc
Version 1997-11; by Wetmore, Manis, Kirby; output format Text.
The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: all ancestors, all spouses and all children of all ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself and his/her spouses.
genancc1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format GEDCOM.
This program is useful for extracting data when a person requests data about someone from your database. The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: all ancestors, all spouses and all children of all ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself and his/her spouses.
gender_order
Version 4; by Jim Eggert; output format Text.
This program computes gender order statistics for children in all the families in a database. Genders are considered to be ternary: male (M), female (F), or unknown (U). Children in a family form a pattern of genders by birth order, e.g. MFFM for a family consisting of a boy, two girls, then a boy. The frequency of these patterns is calculated. In addition to the complete gender pattern for a family, initial gender patterns are computed. For the above example, the initial patterns are . (no children), M, MF, MFF, and MFFM. The frequency of these initial patterns can be used to answer questions such as how many families with a boy then two girls go on to have another boy.
gendex
Version 1.2; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format HTML.
This report program converts a LifeLines database into html gendex document. You will need to change the contents of proc html_address() and to set the value of HREF appropriately to your server.
genetics
Version 2.0.1; by Eggert; output format Text.
This LifeLines report program computes the degree of blood relatedness between any two people in a database. It does this by finding all the common ancestors, known or implied, and their ancestral distance along any known path to the two people.
genetics2
Version 1 of 1995-10-05; by Alexander Ottl (ottl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de); output format Text.
This LifeLines report program computes the degree of blood relatedness between any two people in a database.
givens_gender
Version 1; by Jim Eggert (eggertj@ll.mit.edu); output format Text.
Given name gender report program. This program prints a list of all given names of people, tagged by one of the following: M Only males F Only females B Males and females M? Males and persons of unknown gender F? Females and persons of unknown gender B? Males, females, and persons of unknown gender
givens_gender_finder
Version 1; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program finds all persons with a particular given name and gender. It is really meant to be a companion to the givens_gender program.
grand
Version 1.1; by Stephen Dum; output format text.
For a selected individual this program outputs a list of children, grand children, great grand children and great great grand children.
hasnotes1
Version 1.1; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
It will produce a report of all the numbers and names (INDI's) in the database which have a "NOTE" line at level 1 in the record. It is designed for 10 or 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, or any other printer (ASCII output).
hp-anc
Version 1 of 1995-12-01; by Dennis Nicklaus (nicklaus@wishep.physics.wisc.edu); output format HPGL.
This LifeLines report program generates autoscaling HPGL ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.) The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
htmlahnen
Version 2; by Tom Wetmore; output format HTML.
Generate an ahnentafel chart in HTML format
html.dn
Version 3.0; by Dennis Nicklaus nicklaus@fnal.gov; output format HTML.
Selects a person and writes html pages for that person and all their descendents through a specified number of generations. Actually, you get to specify a set of individuals. It probably works nicest if you select people of the same generation, e.g. all your ggg-grandparents. (I also recommend that you start with the "top of the line" ancestor or else you'll have unresolved links in the pedigree chart.)
htmlfam
Version 3; by Tom Wetmore (ttw@shore.net); output format HTML.
output family group summaries in HTML format
html
Version 1.0; by Dave Close, ; output format HTML.
Produces a set of interlinked HTML files, one for each person in the data base, and a master name index file.
igi-filter
Version 1 of 1993-02-15; by Jim Eggert (eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu); output format GedCom.
Write GedCom of families/events containing given TAG/VALUE
igi-import
Version 1.0; by baud@research.att.com; output format GedCom.
Convert igi gedcom to lifelines-standard gedcom
igi-merge
Version 4.0; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This program helps you merge IGI data. IGI data consists of "families" which are actually events. A real family may be documented by several events in the IGI database, and thus be represented by several "families". This program will help you to locate and merge those "families" back into real families again.
igi-search
Version 1.1; by Vincent Broman; output format Text.
prints out a list of people to look up in the IGI, those erge thoth, marriage, and death information.
desc-tree
Version 8; by Dick Knowles, knowles@inmet.camb.inmet.com; output format Text.
This report prints a descendant tree for an individual. A line is printed for every spouse and child including name, database key number, birth, marriage, and death information. The user can set the number of generations or they can all be done (up to a maximum of 20). The user can also, optionally, include step children and family database numbers. There are two slightly different output styles, tree and numbered. Here are examples of each:
drep2
Version 2.1; by Robert Simms; output format Text.
Produces an indented report on an individual's families and all descendant families. Details on individuals include NOTE lines, once. Line wrapping is done with indention maintained.
d-rtf
Version 1.1 of 2000-06-11; by Paul Buckley; output format RTF.
This report will produce a document in Rich Text Format modeled after some typewritten and typeset Henry format genealogies I've seen. All descendants of a selected person, their spouses and their spouses parents, event dates, and NOTEs are included. I generally reserve TEXT items for comments I would prefer not to export.
dump-ances
Version 1992-11; by Stephen Woodbridge; output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's ancestors and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. It is a simple program that is easy to make changes to, if you want more or less info printed. I have included three date routines get_dates(), get_sdates(), and get_ldates for variations in the amount of event info that gets output to the file. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The ">>>>" marker on a child signifies the line of descent.
dump_html
Version 1.3; by Scott McGee; output format HTML.
dump_html.ll is designed to dump an entire database to static HTML files.
dump_html_sd
Version 1.0; by Scott McGee, Steve Dum; output format HTML.
dump_html_sd.ll dumps an entire database to static HTML files.
eol
Version 4 of 1995-01; by Tom Wetmore and John Chandler; output format Text, 80 cols.
Say you want to know who all of your end-of-line ancestors are, that is, your direct ancestors whose parents you have not yet discovered; these are the people most of us spend most of our time on researching. Here is a program that will produce the list. Any ancestor will be listed at most once, even in cases where lines cross. Each person is shown with date and place of birth and death -- a "guess" is made for the year of birth if it is not known.
est_life_span
Version none; by Rafal Prinke; output format Text.
The program below finds the widest possible span of life, estimating the uncertain and some unknown dates on the basis of user defined values in the table for various combinations of date modifiers etc. Then it compares the midpoints of this with midpoints of others' life spans and if they fall within a user defined range, the two are considered "possibly identical". This is actually just one procedure of several that should be in a program like that - but perhaps the most important one as people may change names, occupations, etc. but they cannot change the time period. I added two arbitrary tags: FAPP and LAPP for "first/last appearance" in sources.
extract_gedcom
Version 1.2 of 1995-08-27; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format GEDCOM.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a GEDCOM file for them. It allows selection of multiple people by following family links, and then allows addition of all ancestors of the selected set or of the first individual, and then all descendants of the selected set or of the orignal individual. It also allows addition of all persons with a specified number of relations to any individual in any of the groups added above.
extract_html
Version 1.4; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format HTML.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a set of HTML files for them. It allows writing multiple people per HTML file, and will create an index file and a GENWEB.txt file for genweb indexing of the resulting data.
fam10c
Version 1.0; by Manis; output format Text.
Generates a Family Report for one family.
fam16rn1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
This program produces a family report of the person (husband), wife, their children, and some data about the children's marriages. It is presently designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, printing a single page of information about that family.
fam_ged
Version 1.1 of 1994-06-08; by Wetmore and Prinke; output format GEDCOM.
This program extracts a gedcom file of all male line descendants of a specified person, with their spouses and parents (including those of the specified person and of all spouses). Also included are possibly illegitimate children of females - when they have the same surname as the mother but different than the father (also if there is no father recorded).
famgroup
Version 1.1; by Kris Stanton ; output format TeX.
Family Group Sheet for LifeLines
fami-grps
Version 1993-01-12; by Stephen Woodbridge (woodbri@swoodbridge.com); output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's families and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The "*" marker on a child signifies the line of descent/ascent.
familycheck
Version 2000-03-02; by Dennis Nicklaus nicklaus@fnal.gov; output format Text, 80 cols.
Consistency checks between indi records and family records (making sure links between kids and spouses go both ways.) make sure each family that a person says he is a spouse of has him as a spouse, and, vice-versa, make sure each person that a family says is a spouse thinks he is a spouse of that family It also checks when a person says he is a child in a family that the family has that person as a child. And vice-versa, that every child in a family thinks he is a child of that family.
familyisfm1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 132 cols.
It will produce a report of all the INDI's in the database, in the format as seen at end of report. May be sorted easily to see the Father or Mother column sorted report. The report name come from: isfm (Indi Spouse Father Mother) It is designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, 132 column (ASCII output).
famrep
Version 6.3; by James P. Jones (jjones@nas.nasa.gov); output format nroff.
This report program produces a Family Group Sheet for the selected individual, with options for generating sheets for married children of the individual, and their children, etc.
famtree1
Version 2; by James P. Jones, jjones@nas.nasa.gov; output format PostScript.
This report builds a postscript ancestry chart, a "tree", containing data on five generations. It prompts for the individual to begin with and draws the tree including this person. The further from this person the less data is printed. Maximum data include: o date and place of birth o date and place of marriage o date and place of death o last place of residence o spouses of person #1 (up to five) as well as: o name, address, phone number and e-mail address of compiler o date of chart
fileindex
Version 1999; by Dennis Nicklaus; output format HTML.
I have lines on indi's in my database which look like: 1 NOTE FILE: BIOGRAPHY $FAMHIST/matthews/alkire.bio or maybe OBITUARY, MARRIAGE, WILL, NEWS ... instead of BIOGRAPHY. and the lowercase letters (matthews/alkire.bio in this example) will change to reflect the location of the file in question.
fdesc
Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format GEDCOM.
this funny little program is based on Tom Wetmore's "genancc1" and generates a GEDCOM file with descendants of a chosen individual who have the same surname (usually this means male line descendants plus illegitimate children of daughters) plus their spouses.
find
Version 2.1; by Prinke, Perry Rapp; output format GUI.
This utility finds all persons whose records contain a specified TAG and VALUE and displays the resulting list as a menu.
findmissing
Version 1.0; ; output format Text.
find persons that are 'isolated' in your database - no parents and not in any families..
fix_nameplac
Version 1; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This is a quicky to show how to fix name and place spacing.
formatted_gedcom
Version 1; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This program outputs a LifeLines database in modified GEDCOM format. Two additions to GEDCOM are made: an inter-record delimiter and a level indenter. These are set up as global parameters and initialized at the beginning of the main() procedure.
gedall
Version 2000-02-20; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
This LifeLines report program produces a GEDCOM file containing the entire LifeLines database, including header, trailer, and submitter records. It also gives the option to keep or remove user defined tags, and to remove any other tags.
gedlist
Version 1.1; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
gedlist.ll generates a GEDCOM file for the male line of the input individuals.
gedlod
Version 2000-02-15; by Paul B. McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format GEDCOM.
Generate a GEDCOM file of a person's descent from an ancestor. The GEDCOM file will contain the following: all descendents of the ancestor who are ancestors of descendant, as well as the ancestor and descendant themselves.
gedn
Version none; by anon; output format GEDCOM.
The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: N generations of ancestors, all spouses and all children of these ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself
gedtags
Version 2001-06-28; by Paul B.McBride (pbmcbride@rcn.com); output format Text.
produces a unique list of all tags used in the database listed like the following: INDI INDI.BIRT INDI.BIRT.DATE INDI.BIRT.PLAC ...
genancc
Version 1997-11; by Wetmore, Manis, Kirby; output format Text.
The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: all ancestors, all spouses and all children of all ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself and his/her spouses.
genancc1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format GEDCOM.
This program is useful for extracting data when a person requests data about someone from your database. The output of this report is a GEDCOM file of the following: all ancestors, all spouses and all children of all ancestors and all descendents of a person, as well as the person him/herself and his/her spouses.
gender_order
Version 4; by Jim Eggert; output format Text.
This program computes gender order statistics for children in all the families in a database. Genders are considered to be ternary: male (M), female (F), or unknown (U). Children in a family form a pattern of genders by birth order, e.g. MFFM for a family consisting of a boy, two girls, then a boy. The frequency of these patterns is calculated. In addition to the complete gender pattern for a family, initial gender patterns are computed. For the above example, the initial patterns are . (no children), M, MF, MFF, and MFFM. The frequency of these initial patterns can be used to answer questions such as how many families with a boy then two girls go on to have another boy.
gendex
Version 1.2; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format HTML.
This report program converts a LifeLines database into html gendex document. You will need to change the contents of proc html_address() and to set the value of HREF appropriately to your server.
genetics
Version 2.0.1; by Eggert; output format Text.
This LifeLines report program computes the degree of blood relatedness between any two people in a database. It does this by finding all the common ancestors, known or implied, and their ancestral distance along any known path to the two people.
genetics2
Version 1 of 1995-10-05; by Alexander Ottl (ottl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de); output format Text.
This LifeLines report program computes the degree of blood relatedness between any two people in a database.
givens_gender
Version 1; by Jim Eggert (eggertj@ll.mit.edu); output format Text.
Given name gender report program. This program prints a list of all given names of people, tagged by one of the following: M Only males F Only females B Males and females M? Males and persons of unknown gender F? Females and persons of unknown gender B? Males, females, and persons of unknown gender
givens_gender_finder
Version 1; by Eggert; output format Text.
This program finds all persons with a particular given name and gender. It is really meant to be a companion to the givens_gender program.
grand
Version 1.1; by Stephen Dum; output format text.
For a selected individual this program outputs a list of children, grand children, great grand children and great great grand children.
hasnotes1
Version 1.1; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
It will produce a report of all the numbers and names (INDI's) in the database which have a "NOTE" line at level 1 in the record. It is designed for 10 or 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, or any other printer (ASCII output).
hp-anc
Version 1 of 1995-12-01; by Dennis Nicklaus (nicklaus@wishep.physics.wisc.edu); output format HPGL.
This LifeLines report program generates autoscaling HPGL ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.) The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
htmlahnen
Version 2; by Tom Wetmore; output format HTML.
Generate an ahnentafel chart in HTML format
html.dn
Version 3.0; by Dennis Nicklaus nicklaus@fnal.gov; output format HTML.
Selects a person and writes html pages for that person and all their descendents through a specified number of generations. Actually, you get to specify a set of individuals. It probably works nicest if you select people of the same generation, e.g. all your ggg-grandparents. (I also recommend that you start with the "top of the line" ancestor or else you'll have unresolved links in the pedigree chart.)
htmlfam
Version 3; by Tom Wetmore (ttw@shore.net); output format HTML.
output family group summaries in HTML format
html
Version 1.0; by Dave Close, ; output format HTML.
Produces a set of interlinked HTML files, one for each person in the data base, and a master name index file.
igi-filter
Version 1 of 1993-02-15; by Jim Eggert (eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu); output format GedCom.
Write GedCom of families/events containing given TAG/VALUE
igi-import
Version 1.0; by baud@research.att.com; output format GedCom.
Convert igi gedcom to lifelines-standard gedcom
igi-merge
Version 4.0; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
This program helps you merge IGI data. IGI data consists of "families" which are actually events. A real family may be documented by several events in the IGI database, and thus be represented by several "families". This program will help you to locate and merge those "families" back into real families again.
igi-search
Version 1.1; by Vincent Broman; output format Text.
prints out a list of people to look up in the IGI, those erge thoth, marriage, and death information.
desc-tree
Version 8; by Dick Knowles, knowles@inmet.camb.inmet.com; output format Text.
This report prints a descendant tree for an individual. A line is printed for every spouse and child including name, database key number, birth, marriage, and death information. The user can set the number of generations or they can all be done (up to a maximum of 20). The user can also, optionally, include step children and family database numbers. There are two slightly different output styles, tree and numbered. Here are examples of each:
drep2
Version 2.1; by Robert Simms; output format Text.
Produces an indented report on an individual's families and all descendant families. Details on individuals include NOTE lines, once. Line wrapping is done with indention maintained.
d-rtf
Version 1.1 of 2000-06-11; by Paul Buckley; output format RTF.
This report will produce a document in Rich Text Format modeled after some typewritten and typeset Henry format genealogies I've seen. All descendants of a selected person, their spouses and their spouses parents, event dates, and NOTEs are included. I generally reserve TEXT items for comments I would prefer not to export.
dump-ances
Version 1992-11; by Stephen Woodbridge; output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's ancestors and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. It is a simple program that is easy to make changes to, if you want more or less info printed. I have included three date routines get_dates(), get_sdates(), and get_ldates for variations in the amount of event info that gets output to the file. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The ">>>>" marker on a child signifies the line of descent.
dump_html
Version 1.3; by Scott McGee; output format HTML.
dump_html.ll is designed to dump an entire database to static HTML files.
dump_html_sd
Version 1.0; by Scott McGee, Steve Dum; output format HTML.
dump_html_sd.ll dumps an entire database to static HTML files.
eol
Version 4 of 1995-01; by Tom Wetmore and John Chandler; output format Text, 80 cols.
Say you want to know who all of your end-of-line ancestors are, that is, your direct ancestors whose parents you have not yet discovered; these are the people most of us spend most of our time on researching. Here is a program that will produce the list. Any ancestor will be listed at most once, even in cases where lines cross. Each person is shown with date and place of birth and death -- a "guess" is made for the year of birth if it is not known.
est_life_span
Version none; by Rafal Prinke; output format Text.
The program below finds the widest possible span of life, estimating the uncertain and some unknown dates on the basis of user defined values in the table for various combinations of date modifiers etc. Then it compares the midpoints of this with midpoints of others' life spans and if they fall within a user defined range, the two are considered "possibly identical". This is actually just one procedure of several that should be in a program like that - but perhaps the most important one as people may change names, occupations, etc. but they cannot change the time period. I added two arbitrary tags: FAPP and LAPP for "first/last appearance" in sources.
extract_gedcom
Version 1.2 of 1995-08-27; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format GEDCOM.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a GEDCOM file for them. It allows selection of multiple people by following family links, and then allows addition of all ancestors of the selected set or of the first individual, and then all descendants of the selected set or of the orignal individual. It also allows addition of all persons with a specified number of relations to any individual in any of the groups added above.
extract_html
Version 1.4; by Scott McGee (smcgee@microware.com); output format HTML.
This program allows the user to select a group of individuals from a database and generate a set of HTML files for them. It allows writing multiple people per HTML file, and will create an index file and a GENWEB.txt file for genweb indexing of the resulting data.
fam10c
Version 1.0; by Manis; output format Text.
Generates a Family Report for one family.
fam16rn1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
This program produces a family report of the person (husband), wife, their children, and some data about the children's marriages. It is presently designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, printing a single page of information about that family.
fam_ged
Version 1.1 of 1994-06-08; by Wetmore and Prinke; output format GEDCOM.
This program extracts a gedcom file of all male line descendants of a specified person, with their spouses and parents (including those of the specified person and of all spouses). Also included are possibly illegitimate children of females - when they have the same surname as the mother but different than the father (also if there is no father recorded).
famgroup
Version 1.1; by Kris Stanton ; output format TeX.
Family Group Sheet for LifeLines
fami-grps
Version 1993-01-12; by Stephen Woodbridge (woodbri@swoodbridge.com); output format Text, 80 cols.
Program walks thru one's families and dumps information about each family. It prunes the tree so an individual is only output once. The program lists all children of the families as it walks the tree. The "*" marker on a child signifies the line of descent/ascent.
familycheck
Version 2000-03-02; by Dennis Nicklaus nicklaus@fnal.gov; output format Text, 80 cols.
Consistency checks between indi records and family records (making sure links between kids and spouses go both ways.) make sure each family that a person says he is a spouse of has him as a spouse, and, vice-versa, make sure each person that a family says is a spouse thinks he is a spouse of that family It also checks when a person says he is a child in a family that the family has that person as a child. And vice-versa, that every child in a family thinks he is a child of that family.
familyisfm1
Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 132 cols.
It will produce a report of all the INDI's in the database, in the format as seen at end of report. May be sorted easily to see the Father or Mother column sorted report. The report name come from: isfm (Indi Spouse Father Mother) It is designed for 16 pitch, HP laserjet III, 132 column (ASCII output).
famrep
Version 6.3; by James P. Jones (jjones@nas.nasa.gov); output format nroff.
This report program produces a Family Group Sheet for the selected individual, with options for generating sheets for married children of the individual, and their children, etc.
famtree1
Version 2; by James P. Jones, jjones@nas.nasa.gov; output format PostScript.
This report builds a postscript ancestry chart, a "tree", containing data on f