This is what the Advanced Tagging: Ancestors, Entire Ancestor Line promises. Whether or not it works for you depends on whether you have links between branches. I do have links so can't use it. eg a maternal cousin married a distant relative of my father. You can control it a bit by setting the number of generations.
When I want all the ancestors of a person with all the offspring of each ancestor, I identify the ancestor or ancestor couple at the end of lines of their pedigree chart and then tag the descendants of each one or each couple on the same tag (which of course I've made sure is clear) To tag the descendants you use Advanced Tagging - Descendants - and make sure you choose Descendants and NOT Entire Descendant Line. If you don't want the spouses who married into the line and enabled the next generation of descendants, then I think you have to manually untag them. This is most easily done in Descendant View. Customise the columns to show the tag number you have used. You can double click in the Tag column to either set or unset a tag. Cathy At 07:05 AM 26/03/2014, you wrote: >Dave, >I'm not sure what you intend to do with the selection you >described. You can get part of it quickly with features already in >Legacy. Highlight the person in Family tab for whom ancestry will >be the focus. Control T to start advanced tagging options. Set the >tag number to be changed. Clear that tag first if necessary. Click >"Ancestors" then click "Direct Line Ancestors" and check the box >under that to "Include Siblings". You may also want to check >"Include Spouses of Siblings". Set the "Number of Generations to >include" as desired. Then click OK to set the tag number >selected. When tagging is finished, you will have the direct line >ancestry and all children linked to that tree with the tag set. > >If you really want the children of those children, you would have to >tag descendants of each of the direct line individuals to 3 >generations. A focus group might help with that process. > >Once you get individuals tagged, then you can use that subset for >whatever purpose you had in mind. >Ron Taylor > > >On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:35 PM, Dave Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >I have been struggling tagging all the ancestors of a certain person >and their offspring and their offspring's offspring - to get all the >aunt, uncles, cousins, etc. but so far have been >unsuccessful. Does anyone have any clues how to do this? > >Dave > > >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
