Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
Oops, let me clarify something. > Just to add a bit to this, remember that the French took over England in > 1066, so that 100% French does not rule out the English at all. Let me also mention that though King William the Conqueror was actually from I think Denmark, but his loyal knights were French. Cindy Lloyd -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
Just to add a bit to this, remember that the French took over England in 1066, so that 100% French does not rule out the English at all. The problem with being English is that you have all kinds of ethnicities merging together in the UK and even Ireland. There are Vikings that raided the UK, Germans, French and Belgian, even now DNA is proving that the Irish have links to the Basque region. Switzerland has a lot of French and don't forget that the border of Germany and France was repeatedly changing prior to the 20th Century. I would not mass delete anything but make notes on them. Go by what all the evidence shows you, not just DNA. Also, if I understand it correctly, at present Ancestry's DNA only looks back 10 generations. The trickle-down DNA prior to the 10 generation limit will still show up in some cases. Cindy Lloyd -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
I strongly agree with the others who warned about deleting people from your database according to DNA ethnicity results. Such results are not exact. DNA only suggests a region where people with a particular cluster of genes in common mostly originate from. The regions or countries given by each company varies according to where most of the customers in their database come from and how each company defines the region or country borders. The ethnicity results are far less useful if you have mixed ethnic ancestors as the results can be very skewed. There is no such thing as being 100% French or any other ethnicity. Different tribes have migrated across the world for millennia. The Ancestry company is misleading because they do not tell you that they only test autosomal DNA which is only works for about 3- 5 generations at most. Other companies that test mtDNA and Y-DNA (as well as autosomal DNA may possibly provide more accurate results about your ethnic heritage. John From: Mary Young Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 5:35 PM To: User Group Legacy Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries Where did these entries come from? There must be a reason why they are in your Family file. I would not rely on DNA to tell me who should be in my database. Mary Young On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 05:28 , wrote: Robert. Two ways: 1.. Unlink them from your from their families so keeping them in your database. 2.. Tag the ones you want deleted an then delete them. Either way you need to spend time making sure you unlink or delete the correct ones. Cheers From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Robert O. LaBonte Sr. via LegacyUserGroup Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2019 4:47 a.m. To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Cc: Robert O. LaBonte Sr. Subject: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries Hello I hope that you can help me on this. I have 1,000's + of entries that I did not enter in my tree. How do I delete masses of these people? My tree consist of 27,000+ people and about 3,000+ are wrong. My DNA shows that I am 100% french and these entries are English and whatever. How can I delete these people without deleting relatives sprinkled among them? Thank you for your time. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
Where did these entries come from? There must be a reason why they are in your Family file. I would not rely on DNA to tell me who should be in my database. Mary Young On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 05:28 , wrote: > Robert. > > Two ways: > >1. Unlink them from your from their families so keeping them in your >database. >2. Tag the ones you want deleted an then delete them. > > Either way you need to spend time making sure you unlink or delete the > correct ones. > > Cheers > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup *On > Behalf Of *Robert O. LaBonte Sr. via LegacyUserGroup > *Sent:* Tuesday, 23 July 2019 4:47 a.m. > *To:* legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com > *Cc:* Robert O. LaBonte Sr. > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries > > > > Hello > > I hope that you can help me on this. I have 1,000's + of entries that I > did not enter in my tree. How do I delete masses of these people? My tree > consist of 27,000+ people and about 3,000+ are wrong. My DNA shows that I > am 100% french and these entries are English and whatever. > > How can I delete these people without deleting relatives sprinkled among > them? Thank you for your time. > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
Robert. Two ways: 1. Unlink them from your from their families so keeping them in your database. 2. Tag the ones you want deleted an then delete them. Either way you need to spend time making sure you unlink or delete the correct ones. Cheers From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Robert O. LaBonte Sr. via LegacyUserGroup Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2019 4:47 a.m. To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Cc: Robert O. LaBonte Sr. Subject: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries Hello I hope that you can help me on this. I have 1,000's + of entries that I did not enter in my tree. How do I delete masses of these people? My tree consist of 27,000+ people and about 3,000+ are wrong. My DNA shows that I am 100% french and these entries are English and whatever. How can I delete these people without deleting relatives sprinkled among them? Thank you for your time. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
Firstly, I wouldn't delete them based on ethnicity estimates from DNA. These are always being adjusted. Also people in the past moved from France to England and back just as they do now. I would think it was extremely difficult to decide from DNA who definitely didn't belong to your family based on ethnicity of French or English. Ethnicity estimates go back centuries. However, if you want to remove people go to View - Trees and click Refresh if you've been there before. Before you get there check which tags you have clear. Now you'll see if you have any islands of people that aren't connected to your main tree. Examine each island - you can tag the people in an island to take a look at them in the Name List/Search List. Open the Name List and click the Search button and choose Show all tagged #. If you decide you don't want that group in your tree, go to Tools - Advanced Deleting after making a backup of the file and use that to delete everyone with a particular tag #. If you are wanting to remove branches of the main tree, then you may want to find and unlink them so that they now form an island and can be dealt with as above. One way to find people in your tree that aren't related is to Set Relationships (Tools - Set Relationships) and then go to Search > Find > Detailed Search tab and search for Individual - Relationship - equal to - Unrelated But I wouldn't just tag and delete them all. Some may be crucial for linking some of the related people or at least their spouses ... In-laws and step children etc don't get a relationship. It just gives you a place to start. If you are using Advanced Deleting, do make sure you make and keep backups. You never know when you'll regret that deletion and it's also very easy if you're doing it from tagging a search to have unexpected results. Cathy Robert O. LaBonte Sr. via LegacyUserGroup wrote: Hello I hope that you can help me on this. I have 1,000's + of entries that I did not enter in my tree. How do I delete masses of these people? My tree consist of 27,000+ people and about 3,000+ are wrong. My DNA shows that I am 100% french and these entries are English and whatever. How can I delete these people without deleting relatives sprinkled among them? Thank you for your time. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] Mass deleting entries
HelloI hope that you can help me on this. I have 1,000's + of entries that I did not enter in my tree. How do I delete masses of these people? My tree consist of 27,000+ people and about 3,000+ are wrong. My DNA shows that I am 100% french and these entries are English and whatever.How can I delete these people without deleting relatives sprinkled among them? Thank you for your time. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
