It’s time for my favorite weekend activity – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver. Today’s challenge is all about our genealogy software program and creating a KINSHIP list.
1) Have you created a Kinship List for any of your ancestors or relatives in your genealogy software program? If so, select an Ancestor – say, one of your great-grandparents, and create a Kinship List of all of their descendants. Or another ancestor further back in time.
I have to admit I’ve never created a kinship list – an ancestor table and descendants’ table, but not a kinship list.
I’m still using RootsMagic 7 – yes, I’m that far behind the times – so I went to REPORTS and then LISTS and chose Kinship List.
Then, I clicked on the bottom tab to CREATE REPORT, which only took a few seconds because I chose one of my paternal great grandfathers, Michael Scerbak, for this task. Eleven pages popped up immediately.
Because the list quickly includes living people, I’ve cropped just the top portion of the first page to share:
I think of my immediate family as being quite small because my dad was an only child and I only have two first cousins on my maternal side.
However, Michael Scebak has 11 pages of related kin, so the relatives actually form quite a large group!
Thank you, Randy, for this challenge. I don’t think I ever even notice Kinship List in the report possibilities.
I also worried about sharing the list with living people on it, but the list shares no identifying information except their name, so it is probably okay. I, too, had never used this list before.
I didn’t even notice living people in my list. Now I need to go back and look. My list has a small amount of identifying information.
But I’m glad you discovered that you have more relatives than you thought!