Relatively Yours 3

Are there any users here of RY3, certainly an old program, no longer supported other than by a users group.
I have other programs but prefer to continue using RY3 & will do so whilstever it works well.

I now need to write a 'custom report' to query one family database & just can't seem to manage to do that, I have read the manual & tried to modify other standard reports without success.
Thought I'd ask in case anyone here might know how & would be able to help me learn how.

 

Hi Tim,
I need to query the database for all individuals with 'Private Notes' added. Private notes in RY3 is a section accessed from an individuals biographical page.
Thank you for your response.

 

I would like to Tim but FTAnalyzer returns an error, "Error: Could not read file from disk. Original error: Stream was too long.", so I can't load the gedcom to FTAnalyzer.

 

I do hope to hear from Alastair as I would like to be able to use FTA with this particular gedcom. Yes I have loaded into Family Tree Maker which I use occaisionally. I simply prefer to use RY3 but do have my data elsewhere as well.

 

Yes I can load a gedcom from FTM to FTA but as the FTM gedcom doesn't return the same information as the RY3 gedcom I don't understand how that can help me resolve the problem in RY3.
I know the problem lies in the Private Notes section of RY3. I don't even know if that section is included in a gedcom in the first place. It wasn't included in the gedcom from FTM that was made from the RY3 gedcom.
Hope you can follow that, sorry I don't know how to describe these things properly.

 

As far as I know RY3 is compliant to Gedcom standard 5.5.

I do understand your concerns & do have all the same people & their bio data, just sans extra private notes, in a number of other programs on my PC & Laptop & various backups on other drives & USBs etc. as well as on Ancestry Private trees.
All my certificates, photos etc are elsewhere, & backed up, but link to RY3 so are safe if RY3 did fail.

I do prefer RY3 which is working well in Windows 10pro & also Windows 11, with the exception of this very recent file size problem in only 1 database of the many I have in RY3. All others are working perfectly.
I rarely use gedcoms so don't know what went wrong with the most recent but suspect it must be to do with the file size issue.

So, being stubborn & inquisitive as I am, I'd really like to see if I can work out what the problem is within that 1 database & fix it.
This is the first time I've had a database issue to fix.

As a last resort I can manually examine each of the 13,000 odd individuals for the errant private note but making a custom report to show me which of those individuals have private notes, because not all do, seemed a logical & quicker option IF I can just work out how to make the custom report to query the database.
If I have to manually inspect I'll sort the database by last changed & work backwards.

I very much appreciate your input as I'm sure you, and most others, have a far better understanding of how databases, or any software, work than I have ever learned. I just use the programs.

 

As one stubborn person to another (I also clung to an outstanding Genealogical program - so long ago have forgotten what it was called - but that sadly was non compliant with Windows after XP so I eventually had to abandon same and go with the flow). If of any help however, I do know there is quite an active Facebook support group for FY3 who try to help with compatibility issues. Give them a try facebook.com/groups/443861862899886

 

Just remembered the program I stuck by through thick and thin until it got taken over and abandoned was FTL or Family Tree Legends, older than RY (sorry I called it FY) by quite a way. It broke my heart to leave it, but leave it I had to do, and now sadly, it is indeed a Legend long forgotten. Perhaps RY3 will have a better ending, but don't raise your hopes too high

 

Hi Bob,
Thanks for your comments & no need for the apology I guessed you meant RY3. I've long been a member of the Facebook RY3 users group. Members there are very helpful & we all try to be supportive of each other, sadly no one there has had need to write a custom report so no experience to share in that area. Some though are, like myself, experimenting, trying to learn how, & hopefully eventually an answer will be found.

 

Thank you Tim, I'll try that process too. I have now managed to produce a gedcom with a smaller file size that will load into FTAnalyzer. This highlighted some errors, luckily not many, I was unaware of in my tree that I'm now correcting & once done will make another gedcom to load into FTA.