This helps, Ron. Thank you. I shall try this tomorrow. Diane Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Ron Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 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
