Cheryl: Here is the steps that will get what you want: 1. Position yourseld to person you want ancestors for in the Family View 2. Go to advanced tagging (Ctrl+T) (hold CTRL key and hit t) 3. Clear all Tags for Everyone 4. Select Tag # to use (Normally Tag #1) 5. Select Ancestors 6 Use Direct Line Ancestors, Include other Spouses, Include Siblings 7. Select OK to tag Ancestors with Tag 1 8. Close taging and get back to Family View 9. Go to File, Export to Legacy File (assuming you want to use Legacy) 10. Give the file a user name and remember where you save it (should be saved at C:\Legacy\Data\ 11. Under Options Tab, select "All records with individual Tag #1 (unckeck boxed 1) Export all spouses of tagged individuals, 2) Export all Parents of Tagged Individuals -- you already did that in steps 3-7 above). 12. Click Start the Export
When finished, you can open this new file using Legacy by doing File Open Family File. It will have all of your Legacy information but only the people that had Tag #1 -- Ancestors. This seems like a lot of steps, but it is pretty easy. You can also create a GEDCOM file the same way but change Step 9 to a GEDCOM file. Hope this helps. Chap ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ----- On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Cheryl Rothwell <historysle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to make a file of all of the ancestors [and their > siblings] of one person with all the data I have for those people and > use it separately. I don't want to delete it from my main file, at > least not at the moment. > > It would seem I would export it as a GEDCOM but I can't seem to figure > out how to set that up. One suggestion was create a focus group but a > focus group seems to be size limited. I am guessing there could be > 1400 people, maybe more. > > Is there a way to do this? > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
