The family group sheet lists the highlighted individual, his or her spouse, and any children they may have. The highlighted person must have a spouse and/or children to print a family group sheet with information on it. Any divorce information also is displayed.
To print a family group sheet:
1.Select the Publish page
2.Select "All reports and charts"
3.Select "Family Group Sheet"
4.Select your options from the Report Settings panel:
A.Include? - Choose "Current family" or "Select from list". You can select or change the current family by clicking the "Family list" button beside this field. If you choose "Select from list", the "Select Families" dialog will open to let you select the families to include.
B.Other spouses - Turn on to print any additional spouses for the husband and wife.
C.Child spouses - Turn on to print the spouses of each child.
D.Basic events - Turn on to print each person´s basic events, even if they are blank. For example, if turned on, a space will appear for the death date and place of each person on the sheet, whether or not they are living or whether that information has been entered.
E.Family photo - Turn on if you want RootsMagic to print the preferred family photo at the top of the group sheet. The preferred family photo is added on the spouse row of the Edit Person screen, and marked primary.
F.Photos – Turn on if you want RootsMagic to print the primary photo for each person on the group sheet.
G.Color coding – Turn on to print any color coded people in color.
H.Private facts – Turn on to print any facts marked as private.
I.Disproven, Disputed, and Proposed facts - These let you choose whether to filter out non-proven facts
J.LDS facts – Turn on to print any LDS facts.
K.Notes - Turn on to print the notes attached to this family.
1.Child notes – Turn on to print the children's notes (you may not want them since they might be printed on the group sheet where they appear as parents).
2.Notes on new page – Turn on to start the notes on a new page
3.Private notes – Turn on to print any private notes.
4.Strip { } brackets – Turn on to remove the brackets if you choose to print private notes.
L.Basic facts only - Only print the basic (b, ch, m, d, bu) facts for each person
M.Preparer and comments – If you turn on, RootsMagic will print the preparer’s name and address at the bottom of the group sheet, as well as any comments entered in the Comments field below it. You can enter comments about any notes you made while collecting the information, such as where you got the information or anything else you might want to include.
5.Choose the various layout and style settings for the report
6.Click the "Generate Report" button to generate the report and display it in the Report Viewer. From there you can modify the report settings, send the report to your printer, or save the report to disk.
