I just learned something new in Legacy by going to advanced tagging & found that everyone was tagged, there were no extraneous people so I've solved the mystery of my "floaters" (love that designation). In researching "my" family, there was a lot of intermarriage with another family & I connected them to each other as well. What I thought were unattached persons were actually ancestors or siblings through marriage to descendants in "my" family. Thank you so much for your help! Norma -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 5:08 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] need help
Norma, I wouldn't make another file at all. The floating ones that may or may not belong to your family are doing no harm. I have a heap of unconnected individuals and groups in my file. However if you want a separate file, the directions I gave will certainly include the spouses of the actual descendants. It will include the whole connected tree. Cathy > Norma Heaton <mailto:ndzhea...@gmail.com> > Monday, 5 April 2021 11:37 > > 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:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *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, <ndzhea...@gmail.com > <mailto:ndzhea...@gmail.com>> 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 > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > > > Cathy Pinner <mailto:genea...@gmail.com> > Monday, 5 April 2021 08:19 > 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: > Chris Hill <mailto:chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> > Monday, 5 April 2021 05:13 > 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+ > > > > Norma Heaton <mailto:ndzhea...@gmail.com> > Monday, 5 April 2021 04:53 > > 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 LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
