Hi Cathy, > I want to separate out some of my family branches. Right now my name > is the beginning of my genealogy file. I want to have my Father's > side separate from my Mother's side. What is the best way to do > this? Should I create a Gedcom file, rename the file and delete the > family branch that I don't want in the file. Or can I just copy my > father's line somehow from the existing file and then rename the file?
If your reasons for wanting to split your file are for reporting/charting reasons, I'd suggest that you don't split your main file. Keep everyone together in the one file so you can take advantage of things like a consistent set of locations, master sources, etc. And when you find that your mother is related to your father via a route that isn't their marriage to each other, you won't be wanting to combine them into one 'cos it's already there. There's a good discussion at http://legacynews.typepad.com/legacy_news/2006/03/your_legacy_dat.html When you want to report/chart only a section of your family tree, and you can't do it with a focus group or tagging or whatever (there are lots of options!), make a copy of your tree, unlink the people you don't want to include from the people you do want to include, and delete the "unwanted" ones (I posted on how to do this within the past week). Then you're left with a file containing just the people you want to work with, and your original data file remains intact. We've been talking about this just in the past week, so you may like to take a look at the archives if you missed the discussions. See the link at the end of this and every post. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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
