Which is why I said in my post, to which you've replied with the pertinent quote left attached, "tag the unwanted branches and delete them".
Actually, I did say I wasn't being particularly eloquent at the time, and I should have said "tag the unwanted TREES". Wendy Joan Kemp said the following on 23/08/2011 11:45 p.m.: > A while ago, someone suggested, copying a tree& deleting contacts you > don't need. Could I warn anyone who tries this that if you do this then > export as a gedcom to see what's actually there, you are left with lots > of floating fragments of tree - just because you break a link, eg delete > your mother, to isolate your father's tree, you don't automatically > delete all your mother's antecedents. Its a mess! > > On 23/08/2011 05:43, Wendy Howard wrote: >> My personal favourite is to save a copy of my family file, unlink the >> people I don't want to include from the people I do want (unlink the >> unwanted parents from the wanted child, and the whole rest of the >> family group is taken care of, for example). Then use the Tree Finder >> to identify all the trees in your (copy) file, tag the unwanted >> branches and delete them. Now you're left with the one tree that >> contains the people you do want, ready to continue with whatever the >> purpose of your exercise is. > 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
