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NiKo
Posted Monday, October 19, 2026 - Post #47993
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I recently finished the 1977 National Book Award winning novel The Spectator Bird.  I had a tough time following the genealogy in the book, so I decided to input it into GenoPro.

You can find the tree here: https://familytrees.genopro.com/Niko/TheSpectatorBird/default.htm

The Date of Reference is June 1st, 1954:
https://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/b6246b1a-7a9e-4023-9c1c-e65f.png


All ages appear correct in GenoPro:
https://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/dc2cc5c5-387b-4f26-af8e-1473.png




But when I run the Narrative Report, all the ages are off by 16 years, except Landgreve (Count) Eigil Johan Rodding (in the upper left hand corner):
https://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/2fff0ff0-e66b-4dd6-a4fa-1761.png


EDIT: I've also attached an updated .gno file

Spectator-Bird.gno (14 views, 5.40 KB)

Edited: Friday, October 23, 2026 by NiKo
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Posted Friday, October 23, 2026 - Post #48001
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I've made some updates to the GenoPro file, and uploaded the recent .gno file above.

I added a second genomap with a date in 1974.
https://support.genopro.com/Uploads/Images/ff0efd25-e95a-4784-a23b-eff9.png


The ages in the 1974 Genomap all appear to be correct, while in the 1954 Genomap, all the ages, except for two, appear to be off by 16 years.  I clicked on a bunch of them to confirm I hadn't accidentally switched to a different calendar, and that doesn't seem to be a problem.

I also noticed in the Narrative Report Timeline, that the "Now" date is drawn at 2026, instead of 1954-06-01.  I "think" the "Now" line used to be drawn at the Date Reference point?  Yes? No?

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Posted Friday, October 23, 2026 - Post #48002
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I have a fix for the age issue but doing more testing . When setting ages, if the individual died before the reference date it was inadvertently being reset to that date of death 😳
I'll check on the Now date.

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Posted Saturday, October 24, 2026 - Post #48003
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Great! Thank you!!


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