Is it possible to generate a report with list of all those people who were alive at a date of my choosing? (I wouldn't have any problem with a large list that included those without a death date as these could easily be ignored if thought irrelevant).
Thanks
Martin
People alive at a given date
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Warwick Wilson
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Hi Martin,
While not exactly what you may need, the following may be of help.
By Clicking the Index button on the left of the toolbar, (or by selecting People->Index from the menus or the shortcut key combo option+command+i ), you will be presented with the following dialogue:
As marked, by placing ">1790" and "<1790" in the birthdate and deathdate fields respectively then pressing enter, a subset of your database will be returned. (There is a count on the top right of the table, in the above example 130 records were returned from the example database.)
Some pitfalls in this method are that the entries from your database that do not have birth and death dates will not be returned. Similarly, if you are searching for people who are alive in say 1970, the ones who are still living will not be returned as they do not yet have a death date.
Once you have narrowed down your search you will be able to export a csv file of your results which you can then edit manually. By combining the results from a few different searches you should be able to reduce your results to what you need.
While not exactly what you may need, the following may be of help.
By Clicking the Index button on the left of the toolbar, (or by selecting People->Index from the menus or the shortcut key combo option+command+i ), you will be presented with the following dialogue:
As marked, by placing ">1790" and "<1790" in the birthdate and deathdate fields respectively then pressing enter, a subset of your database will be returned. (There is a count on the top right of the table, in the above example 130 records were returned from the example database.)
Some pitfalls in this method are that the entries from your database that do not have birth and death dates will not be returned. Similarly, if you are searching for people who are alive in say 1970, the ones who are still living will not be returned as they do not yet have a death date.
Once you have narrowed down your search you will be able to export a csv file of your results which you can then edit manually. By combining the results from a few different searches you should be able to reduce your results to what you need.
People alive at a given date
That's helpful. Thanks
Martin
Martin