Barton, any chance that the missing people are marked as Private, or as Living, and that your export privacy options exclude those?
Ward -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] gedcoms Did you export everyone with Tag 1 into the GEDCOM? Click the record selection button on the GEDCOM export screen Select all records with an individual tag of 1 Make sure the check marks are in the three subordinate options about spouses, parents and children. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 21/03/2015 9:14 PM, Barton Lewis wrote: > I have never tagged so I read about it in Help but it's still not working. > Here are the steps I followed: > > I turned on Tagging. > > I went to my ancestor and right clicked on Tab 1 above his name. > > In the Advanced Tagging dialog box I clicked on Descendants. > > I clicked on Spouse in the Descendants Options dialog box and clicked on > All Spouses, then closed this dialog box. > > I closed the Advanced Tagging dialog box. > > All my ancestor's descendants' No. 1 tag is blue as well as their spouses. > > I exported the file to a gedcom and then imported it into Legacy. No > spouses of my ancestor or any of his descendants are showing, just his > descendants. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Barton > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] gedcoms > > You are not doing anything wrong. There is a known problem recorded in our > system for export of a focus group. Spouses are not included in the > export, even though they are part of the group. > > To get all the correct people in the export tag all the people in the > focus group then export the tagged people to the GEDCOM. Export of a group > of tagged records will include the spouses. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > > On 21/03/2015 1:57 PM, Barton Lewis wrote: >> This is not working. Here are the options I am choosing: >> >> 1. Export Gedcom file. >> 2. Record selection. >> 3. Selected records contained in the focus group. >> 4. Edit focus group. >> 5. Add an individual and descendants. >> 6. Change (to my ancestor George D Lane) >> 7. Spouse (selecting All spouses) >> 8. Click OK in Descendant Options dialog box, leaving "Descendants" >> selected (as opposed to Entire Descendant Line) 9. Click OK in Focus >> Group dialog box 10. Click Close in GEDCOM Record Selection dialog >> box 11. Click Select file name and start export. >> >> I export the file and then import it into a new fdb file. George D Lane >> shows up and all his children by his 3 wives. Their names are listed as >> "unknown." His descendants show up down to me but none of his >> descendants' spouses are listed. >> >> What am I doing wrong? I want the descendants' spouses listed (e.g. >> his daughter Isabelle's marriage to my great-grandfather; their son's >> marriage to my grandmother, etc.) >> >> Barton >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michele/Support [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:19 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] gedcoms >> >> When tagging or using a focus group there is a big difference between >> the options >> >> Descendants >> Entire Descendant Line >> >> You want, most likely, just the Descendants. >> >> If you look to the right of the ***All Spouses*** you will see a Spouse >> button. If you click that you will notice that your anchor person's >> spouses are listed. If there are more than one, you can click a specific >> spouse and then your ***All Spouses*** will change to just that one >> spouse. This option applies only to the anchor person. >> >> If a direct descendant of this anchor person has more than one spouse >> those spouses and any children they had together will be in the focus >> group. What won't be in the focus group will be any additional >> spouses the direct line's spouse had (does that make sense?) >> >> For example, if I did the descendants of my 3rd great grandfather, both >> of my 2nd great grandfather's marriages would appear and all of the >> children he had with both wife's but his second's wife's first husband >> will not appear nor any children she had with him. >> >> Now your second question. When you are creating a gedcom I always >> recommend that you leave it at the defaults (Legacy gedcom) that will >> create a gedcom that has the most information in it and any of the top >> programs will be able to read it. The only time I would crank it down >> to one of the lesser options is if I was creating the gedcom for someone >> that didn't have one of the top programs or I was doing it for a specific >> website. For example, if you export to an Ancestry.com tree format it >> takes into consideration what Ancestry can handle as incoming >> information. To get an idea, you can change the format and then click >> the Customize button on the right. You will be able to see exactly will, >> and won't be exported for that format. >> >> >> >> Michele >> Technical Support >> [email protected] >> www.legacyfamilytree.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Barton Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 3:45 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] gedcoms >> >> Thanks, Michele. You're right - my C drive was not selected. Now all >> gedcoms are showing. (I tend to use the word gedcom as a generic term >> and what I really meant was fdb file.) But, now that all my fdb files >> are showing I see I just need to click File, Open File to get to the fdb >> I need. But I am having a new problem. I selected "Add an individual >> and descendants" in my Focus Group and no spouses are showing in the file >> that resulted. In the Focus Group list, the words "and **All Spouses**" >> are showing at the end of the file name. I presumed this meant that was >> default (to show spouses) but they are not showing. Also, my entire line >> on my dad's side (all direct ancestors including spouses) is showing in >> the file, although my ancestor that I have chosen to generate this file >> is on my mom's side. Why are both these things happening? I only want >> to see my maternal ancestor, his wives and children and all his >> descendants and their spouses. >> >> Finally, if I don’t know the genealogy software of the >> person I am >> sending the gedcom to, should I choose "Basic"? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Barton >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michele/Support [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 1:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] gedcoms >> >> Barton, >> >> When you go to Open File and you select the option to let Legacy search >> for your files, that is the file search page I am talking about. At the >> bottom there is a button to tell Legacy which drives to search. This >> might have gotten changed to something other than the C: drive (assuming >> that is where your files are). >> >> Also, you said, “I want to be able to easily switch back and >> forth >> between gedcoms.†Gedcoms have to be converted to Legacy data >> files before you can open them and switch back and forth between them. >> >> Michele >> Technical Support >> [email protected] >> www.legacyfamilytree.com >> >> From: Barton Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 12:59 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] gedcoms >> >> This is so frustrating. I don’t know what the file search >> page >> is. I clicked on New File instead and found it listed and opened it. I >> want to be able to easily switch back and forth between gedcoms. Why >> does Legacy say no Legacy Family Files can be found on my computer system >> when click Refresh List? 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