Thanks Cathy,
I tried this but ended up missing the cousin that I wanted to give the
gedcom to. He's something like a 5th cousin. I could have missed one of
the "distant" ancestors, that's probably why there are people missing.
Problem with this way is that you can never be sure if you've missed
someone or even who you've missed.
I may try Dennis' method and create a temp database and unlink my wife's
and mother's family.
David
Cathy wrote:
Hi David,
Have you looked at:
Help > Contents > Tips and Tricks > Splitting Family Files
This may work for you.
It doesn't for me because of marriages between distant cousins from
maternal and paternal branches so everything is dragged in.
I use Tagging to separate a particular line.
1. Clear a tag number
2. Using the Pedigree View, note each of the most distant ancestors of
the person whose line you want to separate (in this case your father)
3. Go to each of these most distant ancestor couples in turn and tag
their descendants on the tag number you cleared for use (for as many
generations as you want to share). DON'T choose Entire Descendant Line.
4. Export your Gedcom or Legacy File using those Tagged with your Tag
number along with their spouses, parents, children
That should do it. Omitted will be the odd excursion you've made into
the ancestors of those marrying into this line. It only picks up the
parents of those marrying in. So if any of these are significant in
your research or your distant cousin, then you'll also need to tag
these on the same tag number before you export.
You can do this by creating a Focus Group of the descendants of each
of these distant ancestors but I don't think it's so easy to then
include the parents and other children of those marrying in.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 09:13 AM 28/03/2006, you wrote:
I currently have a "master" database with "all" of my family in it,
including my wife's family. I am trying to give a distant cousin on my
father's side a gedcom containing only my father's family members. In
other words I want to exclude my wife's family and my mother's family.
I've tried using the focus group to create a list that I can tag (for
export), but I invariably end up with my mother's family included or
member's of my father's side missing.
Can anyone offer some advice on how I should separate my father's
side from my mother's side (using the focus group or otherwise)?
Thanks,
David
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