On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:35:34 -0500, dennis gelpe <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thank you Dennis. but let me clarify this. First, I am a relative >novice. I don't really understand the Tag concept. When I go to the >Tree Finder window I see names of people-trees, I have no idea of how >they were created as trees. What I have are different ancestors for >different branches/trees who I would like to organize both as a whole >and as individual ancestral trees. Does this make sense? I'd suggest looking at the Legacy website for tutorials and/or videos. Maybe someone else can jump in and help in this regard. If the tree finder is showing multiple trees, it means that you have groups of individuals that don't appear to be related in any fashion. I would start by asking myself "why is this?". Should they be related? Maybe tree finder is telling you that you made a data entry error someplace? Tagging is simple. Let's say I had a list of names on paper and a set of colored pens. If I wanted to, I could "tag" all the males in the list by placing a red checkmark next to their name. I could "tag" everyone who was alive in 1920 by placing a blue checkmark next to their name. I could "tag" everyone who never married by placing a green checkmark next to their name. That's all tagging is. Legacy provides 9 individual tags for you to use anyway you like. So I could use Tag1 to mark all individuals that are male, Tag2 to mark all individuals that were alive in 1920, and Tag3 to mark all individuals that never married. In your case, you could mark everybody in one tree using Tag1, then tell Legacy to export (to a GEDCOM) only Tag1 individuals. Same is true for many of the Legacy reports. For example, you can tell Legacy to create Family Group Sheets for all Tag1 individuals. Before you proceed, make sure you understand these concepts and try them out. You may not need to split your file into multiple files after all. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
