This question arises because of a wrong choice of an individual at the top, quite indefinite part of a tree - from which the problems cascade. I hope I can describe it clearly. Using a descendants view, there are just 3 individuals (+ one "unknown" partner) in Levels 1 and 2, then of the Level 3 generation I want to keep only one of the total of five families. Of the 4 siblings at Level 3, I would like to keep them joined to Level 2 (parents) and their one known grandparent (Level 1) as a smallish tree. It would have only 17 individuals, and those mainly quite poorly documented. The fifth sibling at Level 3 has a long line of well-defined descendants, and I can easily correct his information and "join" him to parents and siblings discovered that I am much more confident of / which are much better sourced and documented. The tedious but sure way is to print out the descendants report from the Level 1 individual, with [RIN} displayed, then unlink many of those below starting with those that have fewest family below. For those (lower-order / Level) families that have many individuals, and which I want to keep together, of course I need to consider the partner's forebears (up-tree) which the descendants report I describe above cannot show. Fortunately, in this case as described, there is only one partner (Level 3 sibling) where this is a consideration, and the up-side is short. So, my approach would be to unlink those highest-level individuals with fewest attachments (links), but my indecision [THE QUESTION] is how to approach those larger sub-trees in the middle of the data. Is it just to unlink from the parents on the "mistaken" side?
More generally ( ie, a comment) the pragmatic approach, in the absence of a tool within Legacy, is to eye-ball the relevant parts of the database and choose where to start several descendants reports to print out. I can see this being a very difficult and confusing operation for very large trees. I know there are collections of many thousands (many of the online websites I have seen) so no wonder so many of them contain utter rubbish. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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