Diane, Are you trying to split the descendants of your grandparents into a separate file or are you trying to split their ancestors out or both? The process of splitting a Legacy database is very easy but you need to define what it is you're trying to split. I call that making a "slice" of the database. Typically, I will slice out all the descendants of a given ancestor and send that slice to a relative in that line for updating. The relative updates what they can and sends the slice back. Then the slice is merged back into the master file with Intellimerge. Another slice is created and sent back to the relative. The sequence repeats. With each cycle, the master file gets better and the slice changes less. Once the collaboration effort is working, then just the new birth, marriage, death, burial, and other events are added to the slice and master along with sourcing, etc.
On Monday, November 25, 2013 11:26 AM, Diane Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, Today I tried splitting my family file unsuccessfully, even though I printed out and followed the steps for "Splitting Family Files in Legacy" by David Berdan. For some reason, even though I selected the name of my maternal grandparents, it selects everyone in my entire file. I've tried this now four times and get the same result each time. I then tried a focus group, and that didn't work either. I need it split between both sets of grandparents: Paternal: Pare-Bellrose in one file and Maternal: Normand-Guertin in the second. Now I don't know what to do or how to do it. If others have successfully done this, please advise what your steps were. Thanks in advance, Diane Szabo, long time Legacy user. 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
