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Help Needed - How to Seperate a Family Tree

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Mick in the Sticks

Mick in the Sticks Report 17 Aug 2009 16:10

Lady.

Please read the PS

LadyoftheForest

LadyoftheForest Report 17 Aug 2009 16:08

Many thanks Michael I will give that a go. It sounds much better than trying to delete them individually.

Mick in the Sticks

Mick in the Sticks Report 17 Aug 2009 16:02

In FTM 2006 Use the File>Export File>Selected Individuals facility.

From the pop up box that appears which will contain all the names in your tree, highlight the one where you wish to split and choose either ancestors or descendants.

For example If you are married and wished to make a separate tree of your spouses ancestors, you would highlight his name and press the Ancestors button.Only the names of your husbands ancestors would be chosen and placed in a new window to be transferred to a new file. The window has options to allow you to go through the names of those to be transferred to the new tree which can in turn be deleted from the list.

Just try playing around with this facility and you will soon get the hang of it. It would be possible to created several trees with different names and then merge a combination of the new trees to create a new hybrid tree.

WARNING. ENSURE THE NAME OF YOUR NEW TREE/FILE IS DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER TREE YOU MAY HAVE ON YOUR COMPUTER.

There is a danger of giving the tree the same name as an existing tree and overwriting it with the new one.


PS ....You could therefore copy all your husbands ancestors into one new tree and all your ancestors into a separate new tree. This would leave you with three trees, Your family, your husbands family and the original one which contains both families.
Michael

LadyoftheForest

LadyoftheForest Report 17 Aug 2009 15:44

I have downloaded my family tree from Ancestry and saved it onto Family Tree Maker 2006. I would like to create two separate files from the one tree. I have over one thousand surnames on my family tree file and I would like to have two separate family trees, one for me and one for my husband. In other words split the tree in two. I have managed to copy the file ready to created two separate file and the only way I can see to do it is to deleted individuals one at a time on both files. Does anyway know if I can delete one side of the tree in one go, so I leave for example my husbands side of the tree. Hope this all makes sense!! Any ideas would be very much appreciated. Many thanks.