Thank you Bill!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Wilson Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] splitting up a family tree
How I split my database was to save the database to two different files; One for my family and one for my wife's family. I then used advanced tagging to tag (all my wife's ancestors in my database) (all my ancestors in my wife's database) and delete them. Using the tree finder I found several tree fragments. A little clean-up a couple hours later it was done. For me, and possibly for others, some circumstances may make the option of two databases make sense. All my children are from a previous marriage and all my wife's children are from her previous marriage and we will never have children of our own. Our research purpose is to create a family history for our children so my kids would have no interest in her side of the family and likewise hers would not be interested in my side. I also felt no relatives from her side of the family would have interest in my relatives and vice-versa. So, combining the families would imo just add clutter for anyone interested in looking through the data for "their" family. We currently have no common ancestors and it doesn't look likely that a connection will be made in that respect. The only commonality between the two databases is: I'm in my wife's and she's in mine. As far as descendants go, I keep her kids and their spouses and descendants in her database and mine are in my database. At one point I too had everything in one database but divided it several years ago and I'm glad I did. If connections ever entangle our families I will entertain combining everything into one database again but until then I'm quite happy with keeping them separated. Note: I did try briefly to seperate the databases out into four databases (my father, my mother, her father, her mother) and that, to me, was quite unmanagable. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a large family tree on Legacy 6.0. I was told by a family member > when I started that I should try and separate the different families.. > > Keep my family in one file, and my husband's in another. I didn't listen, > but I want to do it now. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
