Hello Cathy Thank you for your excellent explanation and suggestions. I see that I do need to carry on the way I am, and just use separate family files for any imports. I use these as suggested moves to make next as I prefer to check the original sources myself.
Regards Judy. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2004 2:49 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family files Hi Judy, If you separated different lines into different family files, you can, for example, no longer produce a full ancestor chart or book report for your children. Family files are not connected. I think it is best to keep one family file. Otherwise, for a start, since the files overlap, it is difficult to remember which one you've updated. For particular purposes you may want to split part of your file off - to share a particular line or to produce a limited report. For this you can use focus groups or tagging. I regard these as temporary files and delete them as soon as I've used them. You may also want to keep other family files for particular purposes. For example, to keep track of people who may or may not belong to your family. At present I have a file for COOPERs in the Sherborne, Dorset area and have recently expanded that to include other people living in the 19th century in a couple of villages just outside Sherborne. I've done this because I keep tripping over them in my research and felt the need to sort them out. They seem to be continually marrying into my COOPER or OSMENT lines, if not for their first marriage, for their second. When I find firm links to my own lines, I transfer them to my main family file. There are articles on copying people from one database to another and on splitting family files at the Legacy tips page http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Tips.asp Hope this helps, Cathy At 10:19 18/05/2004, you wrote: >Hello group.. >At present I have all my data entered into only one family file. Is it >advantageous to separate each "line" of the family research into a different >family file? If this is the case, eg if my mothers and my fathers lines, or >my husbands paternal grandmothers and paternal grandfathers lines etc, were >shown as different family files (they do have different names) would this >have the effect of removing the connections between the groups. Or can >different family files be connected together with the linking of a husband >and wife? >Thank you all for the interesting and useful topics discussed. > >Judy from New Zealand. > > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
