Narrative report: detailed information about spouses is lacking

[Matjaz]

Hi,

I believe that the 'Narrative report' should also provide detailed information about spouses. Or to put it another way: even spouses deserve more detailed entries. One, two or more generations later these persons will be grandfathers/grandmothers, great-grandfathers/great-grandmothers and so on, and therefore they are equally interesting for genealogy than other ancestors. In the 'Family descent lineage' report, which is more succint, they are correctly given equal weight.

My suggestions for including more detailed information about spouses are given in the form of an example report for BOUVIER, Jacqueline Lee, the wife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (the Ancestris report omits the fact that she was married to the US president). Please compare the report created by Ancestris with the redesigned report with my suggestions that are marked in blue. Both reports are in the attachments.

Regards,

Matjaž

[Zurga]

I respectfully disagree with your modifications.
You give the informations notes of the other spouse in the paragraph of the current spouse.
Even I can understand in a descendant report to give a little more information of other spouse, like profession, I don't see the point to mention everything like that.
On ascendant report, this has no meaning due to the specific paragraph dedicated to the other spouse.

Zurga

[Matjaz]

Thank you for your reply.

I can see that ascendant and descendant reports are two separate things. To me descendants report is by far more complete because it shows all lines of descent as opposed to the "Ascendancy report" which only shows the direct line of ancestry. For this reason, I find descendants report generally more useful (for example to share with relatives belonging to many different families).

Therefore I still see no reason why not to give the whole possible information about the spouse also in the descendants report. The question is how?

My proposed solution was only an attempt how to incorporate the information about the spouse in the report. In it the information about the spouse was indented. I believe a better solution can be found in accordance with the philosophy behind this report. I hope my reasons are valid enough to justify finding a suitable solution.

I'm sending you a slight variation of my first proposal (just as an idea).

Regards,

Matjaž