Advice needed...

[Dennis Kowallek]

Using Office Pro for XP

I am not that familiar with Macros, Visual Basic, etc., so I was hoping
someone could give me some advice or at least point me in the right direction.

I am thinking about writing a Family History (using Word). In simplified form,
it would look something like this...

Person1 (A)

Person2, who is the child of Person 1 (AA)
Person3, who is the child of Person 1 (AB)
Person4, who is the child of Person 1 (AC)
Person5, who is the child of Person 1 (AD)

Person6, who is the child of Person 2 (AAA)
Person7, who is the child of Person 2 (AAB)
Person8, who is the child of Person 2 (AAC)
Person9, who is the child of Person 2 (AAD)

Person10, who is the child of Person 3 (ABA)
Person11, who is the child of Person 3 (ABB)
Person12, who is the child of Person 3 (ABC)
Person13, who is the child of Person 3 (ABD)

etc.

The letters in parentheses represent a numbering system that would make it
easy to identify a person's lineage. i.e. ABD is the child of AB, who is the
child of A.

I would prefer not to "hard code" the numbering system, as I will have a need
to insert newly discovered children or even add earlier generations to the
front end.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could accomplish this? Is this
something that could be accomplished with Macros or Visual Basic for
Applications?

Thanks in advance!

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Dennis M. Kowallek
(e-mail address removed)

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[Howard Kaikow]

For info on Word VBA macros, take a look at the list of Word VBA books at my
URL below.

Using macros, you could keep the info for each person in, say, a data base
and have the macros construct/manipulate the reports for you.

 

[martinique]

There are quite a few freeware, shareware, and commercial software packages
around for precisely this purpose. Having written one myself (for horses
rather than people in my case), I can tell you that it's nowhere near as
simple as it looks. For one thing, in most families you don't have to go far
before encountering people whose parentage is unknown or disputed, and your
coding system needs to deal with those too.