I use the Search - Miscellaneous Tab Before doing this ascertain the oldest Ancestor in each branch. Repeat this for each of your 4 Ancestors In the "Current Individual" click change and select one of your 4 Ancestors After the selection you will be returned to the "Current Individual" window. Select "Focus Group" radio button Click below that on the Button labelled "View / Select Focus Group" If the displayed window in not empty, click on Clear List from the Right hand Menu You have a choice of 6 selection buttons. You want "Add an Individual and Descendants" Clicking on this will open a window where you set the number of generations 999 and leave the default selection to just "Descendants" click OK - you will be returned back to the previous "Focus Group" window Click on Save the Right hand Menu and name your Ancestror line Click OK (Top right off of that window) - you will be returned to the "Current Individual" window. Click on the button botton second from left "Create List" When the list is displayed - Click Options - select Advanced Tagging select the Tag number you want to use (Put some words in the Tag Descriptions to help) Change the radio button for the tag to untag click on everyone - to clear any tags previously assigned to that tag number change untag to tag select "Everyone in Search List"
Repeat for the other 3 Ancestors You might want to think about not using Tags for this purpose as having saved your Focus Group you can always reload it and re-created the list. -----Original Message----- From: James Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 September 2011 16:55 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Advanced Tagging Help Needed I have reserved 4 tags for my 4 grandparents surnames. I want to tag branches of people appropriately, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. If I pick a grandparent, I'd like to tag both descendants and ancestors with their surname (Say tag1 represents COOK). If I tag just the line, I do not seem to be getting the some of the people I wish to include, such as a souses parents or siblings. If I tag all related in the line (and I believe only when I do the ancestors), then it seems that may entire database gets tagged. In this case I am guessing that coming down from my grandparent to me, and then everyone in my file has a connection to me (as I am the hub person, so to speak) so people in my moms line get tagged as part of my dads line. Somehow the 4 color coding figures this out ok. How can I do it myself for my tags? -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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
