Hi Barb, If you've unlinked your family from your husband's, go to View > Tree Finder, then Refresh. Identify the tree containing the people you no longer want to keep in that file, select an unused Tag, then Tag the Entire Tree of the Highlighted Individual.
Once that's done, you can go to Tools > Advanced Deleting, select the Tag you've used above, then "Delete all Individuals tagged". You should make sure you have a backup before starting this exercise, so you can recover easily if you inadvertently delete the wrong person/people. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy -----Original Message----- *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Need to remove my ancestral line from family file *Sent:* Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:45:11 -0600 *From:* Barbara Lewis <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] > Russ...I appreciate your help very much....I would have done the "drop and > drag" but I have some unconnected people with my husband's lines in a > one'name study that I did...a number of unconnected trees...so that's why I > was just trying to get rid of my family on his file. I have alread unlinked > myself from him in this file... > > I thought I could do it by going up to Search and creating a focus file with > all my kin and then just deleting it...but his kin ended up on that focum > file, even though I started out with my name..... > > There has to be a way........ > Barb L. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "my genealogy email"<[email protected]> > To:<[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Need to remove my ancestral line from family file > > > Barbara, > If all you want is just your spouse's line in the file then just unlink your > self from your spouse. Then create a new empty legacy file, then open a > split screen window, when it asks if you want to open another file in the > new window then pick the file that you just unlinked your self in. Make sure > you have created a backup of the old file first then find your spouse and > then drag him to the new file and you then should have a file with just his > lineage in the file. If you need to find out more on this just look in the > Legacy help files on splitting your database. > Russ Strong > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbara Lewis > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 1:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Need to remove my ancestral line from family file > > Mike, I want to remove everyone that is connected to me, other than my > spouse, whose line I have broken...but I can add that back into his line > easily... > > I have my own records that are up to date in another file....all my line is > just extra baggage with 5000 records and I'd rather just remove them > all....all my ancestors, including my parents...and all the descendants of > my ancestors....so that all that is left is my spouse's line....it will just > take me a while to get with someone personally to show me how to do this.. > If this was a PAF program, I could do it easily... > > Barbara L. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Fry"<[email protected]> > To:<[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:41 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Need to remove my ancestral line from family file > > > On 2011/04/17 17:14, Barbara Lewis wrote: >> I've forgotten how to do that on Legacy. Of course I have backups in case >> I >> mess up, but I want to delete me and all my kin from the main file... >> I actually unlinked me from my spouse and then I went up to Search, >> entering my name, and tried to create a focus group, bringing up an >> ancestral list of my kin to delete, but it still contained all my spouse's >> people... > Question and/or description is confusing. If ancestral line then that's you > and > everyone that came before you, leaving your descendants. Or, did you mean to > remove you and your descendants from the tree? If so, break the link between > you > and your parents. > 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
