And your sources ? Regards, Tim Rosenlof Utah, USA Researching Southern Sweden Always --> Document <-- your work.
On 11/2/2011 4:24 PM, Leon Chapman wrote: > 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
