Ian, I don't quite follow. But just follow the principle of working from the known to unknown.
Work up the branches and then unlink from parents when the link isn't confirmed to your liking. That unlinks everyone above that point from the main tree unless they are linked through someone else.
Cathy Ian Thomas wrote:
This question arises because of a wrong choice of an individual at the top, quite indefinite part of a tree - from which the problems cascade. I hope I can describe it clearly. Using a descendants view, there are just 3 individuals (+ one “unknown” partner) in Levels 1 and 2, then of the Level 3 generation I want to keep only one of the total of five families. Of the 4 siblings at Level 3, I would like to keep them joined to Level 2 (parents) and their one known grandparent (Level 1) as a smallish tree. It would have only 17 individuals, and those mainly quite poorly documented. The fifth sibling at Level 3 has a long line of well-defined descendants, and I can easily correct his information and “join” him to parents and siblings discovered that I am much more confident of / which are much better sourced and documented. The tedious but sure way is to print out the descendants report from the Level 1 individual, with [RIN} displayed, then unlink many of those below starting with those that have fewest family below. For those (lower-order / Level) families that have many individuals, and which I want to keep together, of course I need to consider the partner’s forebears (up-tree) which the descendants report I describe above cannot show. Fortunately, in this case as described, there is only one partner (Level 3 sibling) where this is a consideration, and the up-side is short. So, my approach would be to unlink those highest-level individuals with fewest attachments (links), but my indecision [THE QUESTION] is how to approach those larger sub-trees in the middle of the data. Is it just to unlink from the parents on the “mistaken” side? More generally ( ie, a comment) the pragmatic approach, in the absence of a tool within Legacy, is to eye-ball the relevant parts of the database and choose where to start several descendants reports to print out. I can see this being a very difficult and confusing operation for very large trees. I know there are collections of many thousands (many of the online websites I have seen) so no wonder so many of them contain utter rubbish. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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