"On This Date" Report

What Is the "On This Date" Report?

Changing the Reference Date - Time Traveling

Settings for On This Date

Sharing On This Date (Printing, Emailing, Copying)

What Is the "On This Date" Report?

The "On This Date" report starts with one person and neatly shows his family members and the age of each family member as of a reference date that you may change.

This report gives you the ability to "time travel," so to speak. You can, for example, create the report for your grandfather and then pick any date during his lifetime — let's say the date his second child was born — and immediately see the members of his family and the age of each family member on that particular date.

To create an "On This Date" report...

  1. Click Reports in the navbar.
  2. Click On This Date in the list of reports.

Family members are grouped together and labeled by relationship in gray dividing lines. For example, in the illustration above you can see there are 4 siblings in the report.

Here's what happens when you select Reports > On This Date...

Changing the Reference Date - Time Traveling

Near the top of the "On This Date" report, you'll see a Reference Date button and field.

Click the Reference Date button to quickly change the reference date to a significant event in the lifetime of the starting person. The menu that appears will include dates of marriage, birth of children, siblings, grandparents, etc., as well as dates from perspective event sets. These appear at the bottom of the menu, in a submenu. One application of this feature will be harvesting personal statistics on census dates from the US Census perspective event set.

Using the up/down arrows, or just typing directly into the date/month/year fields, you can change the reference date for the report. As you change the date, you'll see the ages of people in the report changing, reflecting the age of each family member as of the reference date. You'll also notice some people disappearing from the report and/or some people being added to the report — depending on whether you're adjusting the reference date backward or forward in time.

Referring back to our example, assume the report starts with your grandfather and the reference date is the day his second child was born. If you move the reference date "back" by one year, then his second child will be removed from the report because the second child wasn't yet born. Conversely, assume your grandfather had four children in total, and the reference date is the day his second child was born. In this case, adjusting the reference date "forward" in time would make his third child appear in the report when the reference date passes the birth date of the third child.

Settings for "On This Date"

To change the settings for the "On This Date" report, click the Settings button in the bottom toolbar. This opens the On This Date Settings window, shown below.

You'll have the option to...

When the Reports > On This Date panel is showing in the middle of Reunion's window, you can double-click any name in the report to open the clicked person in the family view.

Sharing On This Date - Printing, Emailing, Copying

To share On This Date (print, email, etc.), click the Share button in the bottom bar, under the On This Date report. This opens the Share window with the following options...