At 11:58 2001-08-15 -0700, you wrote: >John & Monty, > >This is the same problem (and request) that I posted a long time ago. My data has obscure links that connect my maternal and paternal lines. These links pass through people who are not blood-relatives. An example would be a family with two daughters, each of whom married into each of my parental lines -- one into my mother's, the other into my father's. So, it does no good to unlink my parents. When exporting, even if using tags that include spouses, I still get both lines. > >I practically begged for an enhancement to Legacy that would ferret out such cross links that might exist between Person1 and Person2 (user specified). At one point I thought I had caught the programmer's attention and that some such feature might be in the near future. No such luck. > >Perhaps some enterprising individual might undertake to create a separate utility to trace possible links between two named persons. Maybe it could work from a gedcom file so it could be used by all genealogy programs?? Hmmm. Well, here I am, a fairly new Official <G> addon developer, thinking about all sorts of possible addons that I might build, once I figure out the database aspects of the thing. (Oh, and once my computer stops being flakey!) This sounds like a highly useful project. I have similar cross-linkages, though I know where most of them are (I think). Way back, I realized that a friend on the other side of the country had probably connections with my wife's New England forebears, and it proved to be the case. What was unexpected was that she also had connections with my own Ohio/Kentucky families, so now there are cross-linkages galore. In fact, using my son as the base person, I Set Relationships, then searched Relationship=Related and tagged all of those people. Then, using my friend as base, I did the same, setting a different tag. Searching for all the people who have both tags brings up no less than 946 individuals. Yow! You might try an approach like this while I am working on the program <G> - please don't hold your breath waiting for it, 'cuz doing these things right takes time. Bill Phillips ShoeString Projects To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
