FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

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Jeff

FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Jeff » 04 jan 2006 00:21:53

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.

I now find this was incorrect.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
individual.

Hugh Watkins

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 04 jan 2006 01:48:38

Jeff wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.

I now find this was incorrect.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
individual.


try and find your premerge back up file

Hugh

Paul Blair

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Paul Blair » 04 jan 2006 02:15:00

Jeff wrote:
I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.

I now find this was incorrect.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
individual.




From the Help file

To delete a group of individuals:

1. Create a report, Ancestor tree, Descendant tree, or Outline
Descendant tree containing the group of individuals that you want to delete.

2. Look through the document to make sure that it contains the correct
set of individuals.

Note: Don't worry about what information appears in the document,
because all information associated with the individuals in the document
will be deleted.

3. From the People menu, select Delete Individuals (ALT, P, D). A
confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes. Family Tree Maker deletes
the individuals.

Paul

Charlie Hoffpauir

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Charlie Hoffpauir » 04 jan 2006 02:16:00

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, "Jeff" <jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.

I now find this was incorrect.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
individual.


Well, you can always generate an ancestor tree

<View - Ancestor Tree - standard>
then with this tree showing, click
<People - Delete Individuals in Ancestor Tree>
Then re-enter the individual for whom the tree was generated.

I suggest you try it first on a copy of your file, as it's easy to go
wrong the first time you do it.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Jeff

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Jeff » 04 jan 2006 02:17:55

"Paul Blair" <pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
news:43bb2191$0$26304$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
Jeff wrote:
I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.

I now find this was incorrect.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
individual.




From the Help file

To delete a group of individuals:

1. Create a report, Ancestor tree, Descendant tree, or
Outline Descendant tree containing the group of
individuals that you want to delete.
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Perfect - exactly what I needed thanks.

Dave Hinz

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Dave Hinz » 04 jan 2006 03:29:13

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, Jeff <jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:
I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.
I now find this was incorrect.

Yeah, that'll happen. Repeatedly. Get used to it.

Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given


Probably, but don't. Keep it, with a note of "I thought this was mine
and it's not". Save the next guy (your great-grandkid or whomever) the
pain of doing exactly the same thing. "These people look like ours but
they aren't" is nearly as valuable as "these people are ours". Also,
I've made the day of two researchers by sending them a "not-mine" that I
had researched in error, and kept anyway.

Dave Hinz

Doug McDonald

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Doug McDonald » 04 jan 2006 16:18:49

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, Jeff <jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.
I now find this was incorrect.


Yeah, that'll happen. Repeatedly. Get used to it.


Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given



Probably, but don't. Keep it, with a note of "I thought this was mine
and it's not". Save the next guy (your great-grandkid or whomever) the
pain of doing exactly the same thing.

That'a a good suggestion. I suggest, however, disconnecting them
from the main tree. Disconnect them from the individual they
are not really ancestors of, and create a new person, with
a name like Wrong Smith, to connect them to, who is of course
unconnected to the main tree. Explain in his notes what happened.

Of course, if the bad tree has 11,783 individuals, you might
want to copy you file, remove the bad ones from the main file,
and keep the "bad ones" only in a separate file. This would normally be
done by exporting all the ancestors of "Wrong Smith" to a new file.

Doug McDonald

singhals

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av singhals » 04 jan 2006 17:29:56

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, Jeff <jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.
I now find this was incorrect.


Yeah, that'll happen. Repeatedly. Get used to it.


Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given



Probably, but don't. Keep it, with a note of "I thought this was mine
and it's not". Save the next guy (your great-grandkid or whomever) the
pain of doing exactly the same thing. "These people look like ours but
they aren't" is nearly as valuable as "these people are ours". Also,
I've made the day of two researchers by sending them a "not-mine" that I
had researched in error, and kept anyway.

Dave Hinz



(G)

I've got NOTOURS as the male ancestor of about 188 people who
emphatically cannot be descendants of the man on whom the file is based.

And I've got ?OURS? as the male ancestor of another 150 folks on whom I
don't have enough info to know either way.

Cheryl

Jeff

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Jeff » 04 jan 2006 17:58:47

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
news:EoGdnbGZQpueZSbeRVn-oQ@rcn.net...
Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, Jeff
jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.
I now find this was incorrect.


Yeah, that'll happen. Repeatedly. Get used to it.


Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given
Thanks to everybody who helped.


Paul's fix worked just fine.

I have the original GEDCOM I'd imported. Nothing wrong with
that - it is a well researched, documented and sourced
pedigree back to 12c (a very well known family)

The problem was that the person from my file I attached it
to was incorrect. Fortunately was a very peripheral line.

As was suggested I'll keep the offending GEDCOM and I've put
a note on the "link individual' explaining the mistake to
discourage any future researcher from repeating my error.

Hugh Watkins

Re: FTM 2005 Deleting all Ancestors

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 04 jan 2006 18:00:05

Dave Hinz wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:21:53 GMT, Jeff <jeff@xxxhotmail.com> wrote:

I merged a whole tree of ancestors of one individual.
I now find this was incorrect.


Yeah, that'll happen. Repeatedly. Get used to it.


Is there any way to delete all ancestors of a given



Probably, but don't. Keep it, with a note of "I thought this was mine
and it's not". Save the next guy (your great-grandkid or whomever) the
pain of doing exactly the same thing. "These people look like ours but
they aren't" is nearly as valuable as "these people are ours". Also,
I've made the day of two researchers by sending them a "not-mine" that I
had researched in error, and kept anyway.


a very good point Dave

it is as important to know where things are not too

for example Welsh church books were not available for filming until
recently so you have to go to the county archive to search them

Hugh W

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