Wendy Missed your post. I'll go back and look for it. The other main reason for separating files is to segregate my mother's side from my father's so that I can create the Gedcoms.
__________________________________ Sent from eM Client | www.emclient.com/get ------ Original Message ------ From: "Wendy Howard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: 8/27/2011 8:57:05 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Separating family branches >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 > > > > > 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
