couldn’t you tag who you want – create GED from those tags – open GED as a renamed new tree – edit this renamed new tree - then create another fresh GED from this edited tree.
That way you are not touching your original Legacy tree even though you say to back it up, I’m sure I’d mess up somewhere between the backup and the restoring of original. I think this would work on a small export, would hate to have to edit too many people this way. Erica From: Margaret DeAcetis Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Creating a GEDCOM file to export--problems Update--more trial and error corrected problems to get a bare bones file. First I made a backup of my Legacy files before starting. Then, to create a GEDCOM file, I did the following. Step 1. On GEDCOM Export screen, I selected produce file for "only 5.5". Step 2. I used Tag 1 to contain a group of 8 individuals. For record selection, I selected All records with an individual tag of 1. I unchecked all the boxes listed below. Step 3. To customize, I checked off boxes to exclude all options except child status, compiler information and marriage status. I previewed many attempts on Notepad until I got what I wanted. I deleted unwanted material, like burial information and simplified location information, from my individual view screens. When satisfied, I saved my finished product to desired places. Then I restored my earlier backup to override the deletions I had made on the individual view screens. Hope this is helpful to someone else in the future. Margaret --- On Sun, 7/10/11, Margaret DeAcetis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Margaret DeAcetis <[email protected]> Subject: [LegacyUG] Creating a GEDCOM file to export--problems To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 3:41 PM Hi All, I want to create a bare bones GEDCOM file to export. Around Jun 30 or July 1, 2011, Wendy Howard was kind enough to post a 2 person plain text file as an example. She noted that I could preview my file on Notepad. That was exactly my wish. I have been unable to duplicate her example. From Geoff's training video I learned how to tag individuals for my GEDCOM record collection. From the customize view, I eventually excluded all the available items to export to avoid getting events, etc. printed to the file as happened on my first tries. Among my first problems were the inclusion of non-tagged persons in my file. One of my tagged persons was married twice and I only wanted that individual's first marriage partner listed. But I was getting information on the second spouse also. Then I tried selecting each individual one at a time and not using a tagged list. Still unwelcome files created. Also unclear to me is how to get the bare bones I want, meaning name, sex, birth, death, and marriage. On the customize view, I've tried selecting Only 5.5, basic, and generic. What exactly is only 5.5? I've tried highlighting the categories I want on either side of the include button, but it appears the categories like only 5.5, etc. had defaulted options, so I'm not sure what I am supposed to be including or removing. Can someone walk me though the process of getting Wendy Howard's result? Thanks, Margaret 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
