{"id":1315,"date":"2012-03-28T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2012-03-28T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T13:51:39","slug":"rootsmagics-new-who-was-there-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"RootsMagic’s New “Who Was There” Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

RootsMagic 5.0.3 introduced the new “Who Was There” report, which can be as simple or as powerful as you want it to be. \u00a0At the most basic level it will print a list of people who may have been in a selected place at a selected time. \u00a0Just enter the place and date and RootsMagic will do the rest. \u00a0List people in a census, people who served in a war, or people who just happened to be living in a particular place at a particular time.<\/p>\n

To access the “Who Was There” report, select Reports > Lists from the main menu. \u00a0It will be the last report in the Lists category (alphabetically). \u00a0Highlight the “Who Was There List” and click the “Create Report” button. \u00a0RootsMagic will display this screen.<\/p>\n

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Some Help with the 1940 Census<\/h2>\n

Let’s say you are interested in finding out who may have been in Iowa at the time of the 1940 Census. \u00a0You can simply type “Iowa” for the place, and enter “1940” for the date (you could also enter the actual “2 Apr 1940” date if you wanted). \u00a0Select any options you want and click “Generate Report”.<\/p>\n

Tip<\/strong>: While the report will print in portrait mode, it looks a lot better printed landscape. \u00a0Click the “Layout” button and choose to print the report in Landscape.<\/em><\/p>\n

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RootsMagic will create a list of everyone in your file who may have been in Iowa in 1940 (you can click on the image above to see it larger<\/em>). \u00a0Now of course you aren’t limited to typing in states. \u00a0You can enter countries, states, counties, or cities. \u00a0When entering a place that could be ambiguous, just make sure to enter enough of the place so that RootsMagic can figure out what place you mean. \u00a0In other words, don’t just enter “Springfield”, be a little more specific, like “Springfield, IL”.<\/p>\n

The “Who Was There” report will list the name(s), birth and death dates, the person’s age on the date you selected, and any events in the person’s life which occurred in the place you entered. \u00a0You can also choose to print any alternate names for the person, as well as the most likely married name on that date for any females.<\/p>\n

Other Uses For the “Who Was There” Report<\/h2>\n

While this report can be invaluable for finding people in a particular area during a census, it has a much wider range of usefulness. \u00a0Let’s say you wanted to find people under 30 who were in South Carolina during the US Civil War. \u00a0In the report options below, you would enter “South Carolina” as the place, and instead of entering a single date, you can enter a date range covering the time of the Civil War. \u00a0And finally you can set the minimum and maximum age to filter the results to those people under 30 (or between 18 and 35 or any other range).<\/p>\n

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The resulting list would look something like this.<\/p>\n

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RootsMagic also gives you a “People to include” filter which lets you use any criteria you want to further filter the list. \u00a0So if you only wanted males in your direct line, you can do that as well.<\/p>\n

So while this is a very easy report to use (just fill in the date and place), it can also be a very powerful tool when used with the various options and filters. \u00a0And don’t forget that you can always press the “Reset” button on the report options screen if you ever want to go back to the default settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RootsMagic 5.0.3 introduced the new “Who Was There” report, which can be as simple or as powerful as you want it to be. \u00a0At the most basic level it will print a list of people who may have been in a selected place at a selected time. \u00a0Just enter the place and date and RootsMagic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[31,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}