Events List
What Is the Events List?
Settings for the Events List
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Sharing the Events List
What is an Event?
The Events list contains a list of events for people. The most useful application of this list is to provide a chronology of the events in people's lives. It can include all the people in your family file or just a subset. For example, all the descendants of your grandparents. The columns in the list include...
- Name - Name of a person associated with the event (and optionally, relationship).
- Event - Name of the event type (birth, death, etc.).
- Date - Date of the event.
- Age - Age of a person at the time of the event.
- Place - Place associated with the event.
- Memo - Memo associated with the event.
- Marking - The first column is used to mark or unmark people in the list.
To create an Events list...
Click List in the navbar.
- Click Events.

list events
Working With the Events List
- To rearrange the order of columns, click and drag the title of any column to the desired position.
- To sort the Events list, click the title of any column. To change the direction of a sort, click the title again.
The little gray arrowhead near the right edge of the field title indicates the direction of the sort and will flip each time the sort direction is changed.
- To resize a column, click and drag at the very edge of the column in the title row. You'll see the Resize cursor appear.
- Dates, places, and memos can be edited directly in the Events list, making it easy to "tidy-up" event data. Conversely, changes made to events in the family file will be actively reflected in the Events list while it is open.
When the Events list is shared, the width of the columns (as they appear in Reunion) will be applied to the report if the destination of the report is a text file or your word processor. In addition, the page orientation will change to landscape (in word processors that support this feature in RTF reports).
To mark or unmark everybody in the list, or everybody in the family file, use the Marking Shortcuts button at the bottom of the Events list. Learn more.
- To show a person in the family view, double-click any person in the Event list.
- The Events list appears in the List window, thus it provides the ability to navigate by double-clicking names in the list and simultaneously seeing/editing people in the family view. However it doesn't have the complete column and sorting options of other lists.
Settings for the Events List
To specify the content of the Events list, click the Settings button in the bottom bar (under the Events list). This opens the Events Settings window.

Use the buttons in the Events Settings window to specify exactly what the Events list will show.

Use the Who buttons to create a list that includes events for...
- All people.
- Marked people.
- Unmarked people.
Use the All/Selected events buttons to specify...
- Any type of event.
- A single type of event.
- Multiple types of events. When the Selected events button is enabled, choose events from the scrolling list.
Use the Include button to specify...
- Events, regardless of whether or not the event has a place.
- Events that have a place.
- Events that don't have a place.
- Events that happened in a particular place. This presents an editable search field and Reunion will look for event places that “start with” the word, or partial words, you enter. For example, searching for "york" would find "York, PA" and "Albany, New York."
Use the AND button to specify...
- Events with or without dates.
- With a date of any kind.
- With partial dates.
- With valid dates.
- With custom dates.
- Within a date range (for example, to see all events within a particular era).
When finished selecting settings, click the Update button.
A Note Regarding Sorting
When a primary sort column is selected in the Events list, hard coded secondary and tertiary sort fields are automatically selected. Those are as follows (primary - secondary - tertiary)...
- name - date - age.
- event - name - date.
- date - name - event.
- place - name - date.
- age - name - date.