Names & Facts Report

What Is a Names & Facts Report?

Creating a Names & Facts Report

What's Included in the Names & Facts Report?
Finding People Using the Names & Facts Report


Sharing the Names and Facts Report

What Is a Names & Facts Report?

The Names & Facts report will list (and show usage of) unique...

The Names & Facts report provides an overall snapshot of your research. Here are some examples

The Names & Facts report also helps you to find inconsistencies and/or spelling errors in your surnames, given names, and facts. Finally, it shows date ranges of people with different names and/or facts and the number of living people having particular names or facts.

Creating a Names & Facts Report

To create a Names & Facts report...

  1. Click Reports in the navbar.
  2. Click Names & Facts in the list of reports.

Two buttons appear at the top of the list. Use the first Show button to select the fields to be reported. Use the second button to select whether you want the report to include all people, marked people, or unmarked people.

The menu choices are...

*Note: As mentioned, the items Words in the Last Name Field and Words in the First & Mid Name Field will remove delimiters and punctuation, then parse the selected field into individual words. Each word is listed separately. For example, a field containing D Gregory "Gregg" will appear in the list as follows...

What's Included in the Names & Facts Report?

Each line of the Names & Facts report contains one unique name or fact, along with...

Near the top-right corner of the Last Names report, the total number of unique last names is listed.

This example shows the Occupation field, for marked people...

This example shows the Last Name field (surnames), for all people...

The sorting of Last Names uses the settings in the General Settings window with regard to multiple word surnames, such as Van Halen.

Finding People Using The Names & Facts Report

When a line in the Names & Facts report is selected, simply double-click any line and Reunion will immediately open the Results sidebar with a nifty list of everybody having the selected name/fact. (Or, you can single-click any line and then click the Find button, under the list.)

Example #1: When using the Names & Facts report to show surnames, it can be examined for spelling variations and errors. If you find an error, just double-click that line to initiate a search for everybody matching that surname. Then you can double-click the name in the Results sidebar to open the person's record and make corrections.

Example #2: When using the Names & Facts report to show occupations (fact field), double-click any occupation in the list (for example "Glass Worker"). Then the Results sidebar will show all people whose Occupation is "Glass Worker."

Note about long entries: If you happen to double-click a line containing 90 or more characters, the search operator will change from “Equal to” to “Field Starts with.” Thus the search results could be inaccurate if there are two different fields that have the same first 90 characters.

Sharing the List

Click the Share button to open a text version of the Names & Facts report. The description of what is reported in the list will include the number of unique entries found and the number of person records used to populate the list. Learn more.