Thank you Ron That sounds like it will do what I want.
I'll pass this along to our genealogy team for their use too. I tend to use "gedcom" generically; yes, I'll keep it a Legacy file. Our LEAVITT genealogy team compared PAF, FTM, TMG, Roots Magic, and decided on Legacy as the best to use for our project. Roland Rhoades Maine Families Genealogist www.RolandRhoades.com [email protected] 2010: 30 Years as a Genealogist From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Maternal line tagging Roland, Your question is pretty easy. 1) Clear a tag to be used for this process 2) Navigate to the ancestor for whom you plan to extract descendants 3) Right click on the tag for that person and then tag all descendants which will include spouses 4) File>Export to>Legacy file> 5) Name new Legacy file to contain the exported data 6) Set "All records with an individual tag of" and the tag number 7) Check all 3 boxes under that to include parents, children, and spouses of tagged 8) Open the exported database 9) Generate your GEDCOM file as needed Jacob, Your question is a little more involved but uses some of the steps outlined above. 1) Clear 3 tags for this process 2) Tag your ascending pedigree on tag 2 3) Tag all descendants of the maternal ancestor on tag 3 4) Search>Detailed Search> Tag 2 = Tagged and Tag 3 = Tagged 5) Tag the search results on tag 1 6) Continue at step 4 above Good luck with those exports. I recommend sending a backup of the exported Legacy database versus sending GEDCOM and encourage those receiving the files to use Legacy to examine and merge the data or other collaborative efforts. Ron Taylor --- On Thu, 3/7/13, Roland Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote: From: Roland Rhoades <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Maternal line tagging To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 1:28 PM I have a similar question. I have a thousand or so Leavitt descendants in my personal gedcom that I want to copy to my gedcom for the LEAVITT Family Assn as their genealogist. Of course I can pick the oldest person and create a gedcom of all his descendants. But that either picks the bare bones with NO parents of spouses, or it grabs everybody in any way connected, adding lots of unwanted stuff into my LEAVITT gedcom. For the LEAVITT genealogy, we don't care who the grandparents of the spouses are, all we want is the NAMES of all the spouses' parents like you get when you print out a book of descendants. What is the simplest way to do that? Thanks. Roland Rhoades Maine Families Genealogist www.RolandRhoades.com [email protected] 2010: 30 Years as a Genealogist From: Jacob Psutka [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Maternal line tagging Hello, I would like to create a GEDCOM of only my maternal line and all relatives of their spouses via tagging. But when I try either both my mother's relatives and my father's relatives are tagged or only the direct descendants for my mother's line are tagged. The latter is close to what I want, but I still must seek out parents of spouses and tag them individually. Can anyone suggest a quicker or neater method of tagging? 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