Dear Brian Thanks for the help on exporting My Focus Group to gedcom. It is not focused on a single Ancestor and all descendants, it's a complicated group with multiple heads. Maybe I misunderstood - but it seemed pointless to return to the Focus Group window and "Remove Descendants". This seemed much simpler (1) Create the Search List for Everyone in the Focus Group (1019 individuals) (2) Clear all Tag 3 (or whichever) (3) Export All Tag 3 to a New Legacy File. (4) Export the New Legacy File to gedcom (either include all Private and Invisible People, or remember the final number will be reduced. (5) To test, import the new gedcom into Legacy. Hurrah, I still have my 1019 individuals. As far as I can see, no-one is missing or disconnected. In contrast, a direct File>Export to Gedcom of my Focus Group yields only 742 individuals, a loss of 25% This is a massive loss, I hope Export to Gedcom is high on the Priority Fix List! Mary Young
On 31 December 2014 at 00:01, Brian/Support <[email protected]> wrote: > Use search > Find > Miscellaneous tab > You can select to search using a focus group > Create the search list > The search list will include all the correct people with the spouses. > You can scan the list to check the problem people with multiple spouses > to check that all their spouses are in the list. > Close the search list > When you export the GEDCOM > Click the Record selection button > Select the "Selected records in the focus group > Click on Edit the focus group > Clear the list to remove the Descendants > Use the Add the Current search list button to add the people in the > search list instead of the descendants. > OK > Close and export > Now you should get all the correct spouses. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > On 30/12/2014 3:27 PM, Mary Young wrote: > > Not realising there was a problem with exporting a Focus Group via > > gedcom, I created one recently. It seemed OK because (unlike Pat and > > Brian's experience) most of the Spouses are there. Looking again, the > > gaps seem to be mainly (though not always) with multiple marriages, > > e.g. my brothers and I have been transferred, but our mother (a 2nd > > wife) has not. My great-aunt-by-marriage was married 3 times, all > > husbands appear. Great-aunt's mother married twice - all her children > > appear OK, but both husbands are missing. > > A generation further back, a man who married 3 times - all his > > children appear, but none of his wives; and "spouse" icon shows 2, I > > assume because the third wife was childless. > > In short, I can't make sense of what is happening. > > The bottom line - I desperately need to send my updated file to a > > cousin with Family Tree Maker - what can I do? Is there another > > avenue? > > Mary Young > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
