Report Programs

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

2ppage
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; 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; 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; 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; 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.
ahnentafel
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format Text.
  Generate an ahnentafel chart for the selected person.
alive
  Version 5.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  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.
alllines
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format nroff.
  This program shows all ancestral lines of a specified person using a pseudo-Register format.
alllines.sgml
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Nozell; output format SGML, NROFF.
  This program shows all ancestral lines of a specified person using a pseudo-Register format.
ancestors2
  Version 1.0; 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 1.0; by Stephen Dum; output format html; char encoding ASCII.
  Generate calendar of birth, death, marriage events arranged by the month and day that they occured. Generates a top level index calendar, with actual events stored in a separate html file for each month. Warning, this report requires lifelines version 3.0.27 or later.
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; 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 descendent or ancestor/ahnentafel style.
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 1.0; by Simms; output format Text.
  Asks for a descendant and an ancestor then produces, for the line connecting the two persons, an indented report on an individual and all families associated with that individual. Details on individuals include NOTE lines. This is handy for explaining to someone how you're connected to their ancestor. (I find closure by filling in details on everyone's family groups, rather than just having a string of sibling-less individuals that connect me with distant cousins. This report helps me do the same for others.)
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 3.0; by Wetmore, Woodbridge, Eggert; output format Text.
  Displays "ancestor coverage," that is, what percentage of ancestors have been discovered for each generation back in time.
cron
  Version 1.0; 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 occured. Generates a top level index by year, with actual events stored in a separate html file for each decade. Warning, this report requires lifelines version 3.0.27 or later.
dates
  Version 4.0; 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.
desc-henry
  Version 8.0; 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.
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.
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).
famrep1
  Version 1.0; by Jones; output format nroff.
  famrep1
famrep3
  Version 3.0; by Jones; output format nroff.
  Family Group Sheet report program, with in-line source references.
famrep6
  Version 6.0; by Jones; 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 1.0; by Jones; output format PostScript.
  This report builds a postscript ancestory 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.
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 1.0; by Prinke; output format GUI.
  The program asks the user for the TAG and its VALUE, and the displays a menu of all the matches. The VALUE matches as many characters as the user inputs, so "occu/s" will display a menu of all persons whose occupation name starts with an "s".
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 1.0; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
  This is a quicky to show how to fix name and place spacing.
formatted_gedcom
  Version 1.0; 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.
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 3.0; by 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.
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.
givens_gender_finder
  Version 1.0; 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.
hasnotes1
  Version 1.0; 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).
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.
index1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text.
  This program produces a report of all INDI's in the database, with sorted names as output. It is presently designed for 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, for printing a index of person in the database (ASCII output).
index_mm
  Version 4.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This program lists everyone in a database, with women listed by both maiden name and married name. It assumes that all women take the surname of their husbands, which is not always correct.
indiv2.r
  Version 1.0; by Simms; output format Text.
  Produces an indented report on an individual and all families associated with that individual. Details on individuals include NOTE lines. Linewrapping is done with indenting maintained.
indiv3
  Version 3.0; by Simms; output format Text.
  Produces an indented report on an individual and all families associated with that individual. Details on individuals include NOTE lines. Linewrapping is done with indenting maintained.
infant_mortality
  Version 1.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This program finds families that have lost multiple children. You give it the threshold for the number of young deaths, and the threshold for the age at death, and it finds all the appropriate families.
least_related
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longlines
  Version 2.0; by Chandler; output format Text.
  Find the maximal-length male and female lineages in the database. Optionally, find the maximal-length lineage through a specified ancestor.
marriages1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 80 cols.
  select and produce an a output report of all marriages in the database, with date of marriage if known.
menu
  Version 1.0; by ?; output format GUI.
  Menu driven shell for LifeLines report programs
namefreq
  Version 3.0; by Chandler; output format Text.
  This report counts occurrences of all first (given) names in the database. Individuals with only surnames are not counted. If the surname is listed first, the next word is taken as the given name.
namefreq2
  Version 2.0; by Chandler; output format Text.
  This report counts occurrences of all first (given) names in the database. Individuals with only surnames are not counted. If the surname is listed first, the next word is taken as the given name.
names_freq
  Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  Tabulate frequency of names in database. Like namefreq (by John Chandler), but it computes frequencies for the first five given names, the surname, and the first two post-surnames. The output can be sorted by frequency or by alphabet, or not at all.
namesformat1
  Version 1.0; by Manis; output format Text.
  This program produces a report of how the names format may be printed using the LifeLines Report Generator.
nonpatronymics
  Version 1.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  Find all cases of nonpatronymic inheritances in the database. If the child's surname is not identical to the father's surname, print both out. If the two surnames have different soundex codes, undent the printout. Print statistics at the end.
pafcompat
  Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This LifeLines report program checks a LifeLines database for compatibility with PAF. I used the Mac PAF manual for field length specification, and Mac PAF v2.11 for a little testing.
partition
  Version 8.0; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM.
  This program partitions individuals in a database into disjoint partitions. A partition is composed of people related by one or more multiples of the following relations: parent, sibling, child, spouse. There is no known relationship between people in different partitions.
pdesc1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis, Jones, Eggert; output format Text, 132 cols.
  This program will select and produce a descendant report for the person selected. Children of each spouse are printed below that spouse. Descendants report format, which print the date in long format. Output is an ASCII file, and will probably need to be printed using 132 column format.
pdesc2.r
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis, Jones, Eggert, Simms; output format Text.
  This program will select and produce a descendant report for the person selected. Children of each spouse are printed below that spouse. Descendants report format, which print the date in long format.
pdesc3
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pdesc4
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis, Jones, Eggert, Simms; output format Text.
  Produces indented descendant list with line wrapping at 80 columns (user-specifiable) while maintaining the indentation level. Enhancement from version 2 is the addition of user-specified maximum number of generations. Version 4 makes the page_width (not 1 less) the limit on character a shift inplacement. Also eliminated an extra space at the beginning of each line that was not controlled by a left_margin parameter.
pedigreel
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format Text, 132 cols.
  select and produce a ancestor report for the person selected. Ancestors report format, which print the event in long format. Output is an ASCII file, and will probably need to be printed using 132 column format.
places
  Version 5.0; by Olsen, Eggert; output format Text.
  Prints out the value of all the lines in your database with the PLAC tag, along with enough information so you can find the line easily. The purpose of this report is so you can find all the places that seem wrong (misspelled, ambiguous, incomplete [left out the county name], etc), and double-check them or correct them.
ps-anc2
  Version 2.0; by Wheeler; output format PostScript.
  This LifeLines report program generates Postscript ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.). A multi-page poster chart can also be generated. The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
ps-anc5
  Version 5.0; by Wheeler, Stringer; output format PostScript.
  This LifeLines report program generates Postscript ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.). A multi-page poster chart can also be generated. The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
ps-anc6
  Version 6.0 ; by Wheeler, Stringer ; output format PostScript .
  This LifeLines report program generates Postscript ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.). A multi-page poster chart can also be generated. The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
ps-anc7
  Version 7.0; by Wheeler, Stringer; output format PostScript.
  This LifeLines report program generates Postscript ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.). A multi-page poster chart can also be generated. The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
ps-anc8
  Version 8.0; by Wheeler, Stringer; output format PostScript.
  This LifeLines report program generates Postscript ancestral and descendant charts. The ancestral charts can include the siblings of all direct ancestors (aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, etc.). A multi-page poster chart can also be generated. The chart format is based on the program GedChart, by Tom Blumer.
register-tex
  Version 2.0; by Wetmore, Olsen; output format LaTeX.
  This report prints, in book format, information about all descendants of a person and all of their spouses. It tries to understand as many different GEDCOM tags as possible. All source iformation (SOUR lines) is in the footnotes. The output is in LaTeX format.
register1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format nroff.
  It will produce a report of all descendents of a person, and is presently designed for 12 pitch, HP laserjet III. All NOTE and CONT lines from data will be printed in the this report. This report will produce a paginated output. It is similiar to the report 'regvital1'.
regvital
  Version 3.0; by Wetmore, Manis, Chandler; output format nroff.
  This program produces a report of all descendents of a given person, and is presently designed for 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, for printing a book about that person. All NOTE and CONT lines are included in the report, along with the vital statistics, occupations, immigrations, attributes, and wills. At the end of the report is a sorted listing of names of everyone mentioned, with reference numbers giving the first occurrences of all the names.
regvital1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis; output format nroff.
  It will produce a report of all descendents of a person, and is presently designed for 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, for printing a book about that in ancestor. It prints a sorts listing of names, at the end of the report of everyone in the report. All NOTE and CONT lines will be printed in the this report. This report will produced a paginated output.
relate
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format Text.
  Finds a shortest path between two persons in a LifeLines database. Inspiration from Jim Eggert's relation program.
related_spouses
  Version 2.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This program identifies spouses with known common ancestors. For each marriage of related spouses, the spouses' names are printed, along with the first common ancestor in each branch of the ancestry tree, and the number of intervening generations for the husband and wife, respectively.
relation
  Version 5.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This program calculates the relationship between individuals in a database. It does so in three modes. Mode 1 just does one pair of individuals and then exits. Mode 2 does any number of pairs with a common "from" person. Mode 3 does all pairs with a common "from" person. In general, mode 1 is fastest for simple relationships, but if you want one complicated relationship, you may as well do them all.
rllgen
  Version 1.0; by Eggert; output format RLL format.
  A LifeLines report program to aid in the generation of Roots Location List (RLL) submissions. Given a person, this generates a RLL-like submission for that person and his/her ancestors. The output will likely need considerable hand editing, but that is how it is. If you need to know what the RLL is, I have enclosed a description at the end of this file.
rslgen
  Version 1.0; by Eggert; output format RSL format.
  a LifeLines report program to aid in the generation of Roots Surname List (RSL) submissions. Given a person, this generates a RSL-like submission for that person and his/her ancestors. The output will likely need considerable hand editing, but that is how it is. If you need to know what the RSL is, I have enclosed a description at the end of this file.
showlines1
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format Text.
  This program will produce a report of all ancestors of a person, and is presently designed for 10 or 12 pitch, HP laserjet III.
simpleged
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore; output format GEDCOM.
  This program generates a simple GEDCOM file from a database. It can be modified to convert your own LifeLines database formats to other GEDCOM formats.
soundex-isfm
  Version 1.0; by Wetmore, Manis, Eggert; output format Text, 132 cols.
  This program 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.
soundex1
  Version 1.0; by Jones; output format Text.
  Produces a chart of all surnames in database with corresponding SOUNDEX codes. It is designed for 10 or 12 pitch, HP laserjet III, or any other printer.
sources
  Version 1.0; ; output format Text.
  Print the sources associated with an individual.
stats
  Version 9.0; ; output format Text.
  This LifeLines report program computes mean statistics of various quantities binned over other quantities. The quantities it knows about are ages at and dates of birth, christening, first and last marriage, first and last child's birth, death, burial, and today; the number of children, siblings, and marriages; and sex, surname, first name, soundex, and any simple GEDCOM tag. These can be combined nearly arbitrarily and evaluated over the whole database, or restricted to ancestors or descendants of a chosen individual or to members of a predetermined set. Further restrictions on the individuals included in the statistics can be based on any quantity that the program knows about. The program will optionally print out the names of all the individuals included in the statistics.
surname1
  Version 1.0; by Manis, Wetmore; output format Text, 132 cols.
  LifeLines Report for quickly getting output of all individuals with a a particular surname.
timeline1
  Version 1.0; by Jones; output format Text, 80/132 cols.
  This report creates Ascii timeline showing birth, marriage, and death events of selected individuals; shows which individuals were contemporaies.
timeline2
  Version 2.0; by Jones; output format Text, 80/132 cols.
  This report creates one of the following timeline charts: 1. Ascii timeline graph showing birth, marriage, and death events of selected individuals; shows which individuals were contemporaies. 2. Ascii timeline chart data with the above information for use with the my timeline generation program or the today program.
tinytafel1
  Version 3.1; by Wetmore, Eggert, Chandler; output format TinyTafel.
  This report will produce a tinytafel report on a person.
tinytafel2
  Version 2.0; by Wetmore, Eggert; output format TinyTafel.
  This report will produce a tinytafel report on a person.
verify
  Version 9.0; by Eggert; output format Text.
  This LifeLines report program generates a text file which lists exceptions to assertions or checks about the database. There are two forms of the output report, terse or verbose, selectable at runtime.
st/st_all
  Version 1.13 (2003-06-19); by Perry Rapp; output format mixed; char encoding ASCII.
  Validates report language functions, and optionally dumps various data to a file (to exercise db functions).
st/st_aux
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format none; char encoding ASCII.
  /
st/st_collate
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_collate_8859-1
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format mixed.
  /
st/st_collate_UTF-8
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_convert
  Version 1.01 (2002-12-14); by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_date
  Version 1.1 (2003-01-22); by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_db
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  Dumps some of each type of record, followed by a gengedcomstrong
st/st_number
  Version 1.0; by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_string
  Version 1.1 (2003-08-07); by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /
st/st_string_UTF-8
  Version 1.1; by Perry Rapp; output format none.
  /

This overview was generated 09 Nov 2003