Topic: Reports and Books

Sub Categories

An Overview of Reporting

Reports allow you to view your data (or a subset of your data) in various formats that you can use to check aspects of your data entry, or and/or share that data with others

Copy a Query Result Set to a Table in Notes or Book Item

A query can produce very informative tabulated data that may need to be captured in a table in either a rich text Notes field or a Free Text item in a Book

Creating a Book

A book containing as much or as little information as you require on an individual, their family, their ancestors or descendants

Custom Reports

Custom Report Types are derived from Standard Report Types by using the command or the Save Report As… button in the righthand pane

Delete Data for Living People

It is usually necessary to delete the data for living people from your database, before publishing it to a wider audience such as on a website

Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates

These specify the wording for facts in Narrative Reports and elsewhere

Report Content, Media, Format and Layout

Several Family Historian features involve the creation of Reports either standalone, or incorporated in Family Tree Website/CD/DVDs, or Books (in Version 5 or later

Report Tips and Tricks

This summarises some little known tips and tricks with Reports

Standard Report Types

Most reports are organised as tabulated, indented, or simple lists, but Narrative Reports employ Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates to produce natural language sentences

Tabulate Multiline Text in Records and Reports

Important note: As of Family Historian  V7, this article is redundant, as V7 supports formatting and tables in Notes