Pruning my family tree - thoughts?
I think I saw something to answer this question sometime in the past, but cannot recall... Over the years, I have been somewhat undisciplined when adding people to my Legacy family tree to a point where, today there are many very, very distant relatives that I would like to remove. I was thinking of possibly starting over - hopefully by being able to create a new tree containing only by direct line ancestors starting with my mother and father - eliminating the "mothers-in-lay of 28th cousins - 14 times removed." Is there a way to create such a tree without having to one by one through my entire data base? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
One way to do that is:
ReplyDelete1. In your existing family file, go to your own record (or the record you want as the start of your ancestral line).
2. Go to Search/Miscellaneous at the top of the screen, your name should appear as the current individual. If not, then change it as necessary.
3. Choose Edit Focus Group and choose the Add Individual and Ancestors option (clear any previous Focus Groups that may be listed).
4. Choose your ancestor options, then "OK" your way back to the Search window.
5. Run the search and Tag the records. Review the list to ensure you have only the records you want.
6. Then Create a new blank File and choose the No Thanks option to keep it blank.
7. In the new file, go to File/Import and choose Legacy Family file, then select your old file from the list that appears.
8. It will offer options - choose option (3) to Import all records with Tag X and run the Import.
Good luck.
If you have "Set Direct Line as Preferred" (under Tools) the direct line will be in bold. It would be a fairly short list in comparison to the rest. So you could tag those on your choice of number. Then do a Search for untagged on that number and delete them, one click under Advanced Deleting. Make sure to tell it not to confirm every deletion or you'll be there forever.
ReplyDeleteI would more likely do what Ed Allard suggests and export them to a new file rather than destroy the file you've got in case you need to get back to it.
Thanks for the help
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