Thanks, Jim. I think you missed my point that I also wanted to omit all of the ancestors of my father's parents, but that's no problem, I can see it would be the same procedure as my husband's parent's ancestors. I will give your instructions a try, I am sure they will work. You also mention creating a Gedcom for the remainder to send to my cousin. Do I need to worry that some of the details would not go through OK to her? She has Legacy Deluxe, perhaps a 4 month old build. I have the latest build. Or should I send her a copy of my remaining file after burning it to a CD, and tell her to download the latest build? If the Gedcom will do just as good a job, I had rather do it that way. However, quality would be the first concern. I have a very large number of events, sources and notes (some of them very long notes) in the file that I would like to remain intact. Helen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Winfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pruning my tree > Helen, > > If you remove the ancestors of your husband's parents won't that also remove > the ancestors of his grandparents. I would proceed like this. > > First, dopy your Legacy file to a new file. > Open the new file. > Go to your husband's father and make him the focus person. > Click on edit and Tag Records. Choose to tag all his ancestors as Tag 2 > Do exactly the same thing for his mother > Go to Search and create a list of all persons with Tag 2 = Tagged > Create a list > Under Options choose Advanced Deleting and delete everyone with Tag 2 = > Tagged > Now choose yourself, go to Edit, Tag Records and choose to tag your > descendants as Tag 1, using the option to Tag Entire Family Line. > Do a gedcom of all people with Tag 1 = Tagged. > > That should get rid of your husband's family. > > Jim 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
