Thank you both for your suggestions, but is that the only way to do this? Or is there an easier way? This was a very prolific family, the starting family had 10 children & succeeding generations had 6 & up to 14 children. The total number of persons in the initial file is about 550, and I have only traced his descendants down to his great-grandchildren. The extraneous people in the file are ones for whom I found a will & or deed & I added them to the file in the hopes that I would be able to fit them in somewhere down the line. I do want to include spouses of actual descendants.
Norma From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2021 8:19 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help Norma, As Chris says, this should be an easy task provided you don't have wrong links between people in your family file. Make sure you have tagging on at Options > Customise 1.5 or if you've been using tags, that you have a clear tag and you know which one it is. (Right click on a tag box to open Advanced Tagging and the bottom section will tell you how many people are using each tag. Additionally it will tell you what you used them for, if you filled that in. Go to View > Tree Finder and make sure you click Refresh. Then the largest connected tree will be the one you want. Highlight and tag the entire tree of the highlighted individual Then you export that tag group. You should be exporting to a new Legacy file if you want to keep using Legacy for this group. File > Export to > Legacy file. The first thing that opens is the dialogue to name your new file for the export process is actually importing into a new file. Then choose the option to export just the tag group. Read the whole screen and choose other options if you want. If you really want a Gedcom to transfer to an online tree or another program, the step you missed was to choose to only export your tag group. There's a Record Selection button. That will achieve your aim provided you don't have bad links between people in your current family file. Cathy Chris Hill wrote: The question is whether you have made links ie children or spouses between them or not. If not they should in separate trees. You could start at the top of the tree and then tag everyone who is a dependent of them. Then you should be able to extract just them and their spouses. Alternatively just tag the major tree, excluding the other ones, and tag it so that you can extract them. If you have made links which are potentially wrong, you have the issue of identifying them and removing them. Regards Chris >From my Motorola G6+ On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, 21:54 Norma Heaton, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello____ I have created a tree tracing all the descendants of a particular person & his wife, but in creating this tree I included all persons with the surname who at the time I thought might be connected to the individual. Then I wanted to pull out of that tree only the actual descendants. I created a gedcom of those individuals & set up a new Legacy tree with only his descendants. But I have just found the gedcom I created for the new tree has included all the persons in the original tree. ____ So, my question is: How do I create a new Legacy tree with only this persons descendants & not the peripheral persons who I have found have no connection. I am using Legacy 7.5.0.286 ____ Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Norma ____ __ __ __ __ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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