Family Historian User Group

Just to let you know, I have successfully been able to use the plugin to prune various branches, including those that don't contain common ancestors. This goes much easier and faster than using the query separately each time, as I only have to add a list of names (just needing to make sure I select ...

No problem, and yes the genealogical situation is indeed rather complex. I have tried as you suggested, and was able to get that screen to add multiple people. I also added my own grandfather, who was technically also a spouse of the to-delete branch as otherwise the list may still spill over to the...

Just thinking about it some more... Would it not be easier if, instead of using the plugin, I just delete those 3 spouses (which I circled in red) and then run the regular query to prune ancestor branches? Then the link should be severed for sure, and no people from the left branch can get accidenta...

3. That suggests there are common ancestors to both left and right branches but further back than shown in your screenshot. Can you confirm that the Prune Branches Query works correctly on other ancetral branches. Just thinking here: all 3 cases I identified, all connect those two same branches eac...

I don't know what mean when you say you "saw a list of people, able to search among them and switch one to the right." You cannot switch people in a Result Set. Please post a screenshot of running the plugin with the selected spouse in view alongside. The screen that I got the first time, and then ...

This is the post where I listed what I did: I have corrected both my queries now, thanks. With the plugin, it seems that I was able to do it successfully one time, with the plugin option set to 0.10. Then I did "undo" to try again with another value, and also to write down exactly what I did. But no...

1. That is the point I was trying to make, the left branch did not directly marry someone of the right branch. They married someone of a family of whom someone else married the right branch. For some descendants of both the left and right branch, I suppose the ancestors are - Maria Theresia Somers &...

I think it is easier if I show you the situation in my family tree. I have 3 instances in which someone of the to-keep branch married someone, whose brother or sister, or a relative of another generation, married someone of the to-delete branch. I am attaching 3 screenshots from Geneanet, where I us...

Thanks, I made the necessary changes to the query and now it works exactly as intended! As for the plugin, I must still be doing something wrong in the steps I described in my previous post. I look at the page of the spouse of the to-delete branch, follow the steps (as I described in my previous pos...

I just tried the corrected custom query for descendants, but it is still not working correctly. For example, I select a husband of my grandmother (not my grandfather but a previous spouse) and say to delete descendants with my custom query. The descendants are indeed deleted, but so are my grandfath...

I have corrected both my queries now, thanks. With the plugin, it seems that I was able to do it successfully one time, with the plugin option set to 0.10. Then I did "undo" to try again with another value, and also to write down exactly what I did. But now the plugin screen with the names (before t...

So I need to write "Starting person" in the label for every "exclude if" filter, not just the first one? Because in the original query (the one for ancestors) it is only filled out in the first filter too. What I did was copy the original query, and then just change "ancestor" to "descendant" and vi...

I just installed the plugin and had a look, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use it. What I tried so far is: run the plugin, let all options checked as they are in the first screen. Then I do "add using query", select the "Prune Branches Query" (the custom query for ancestors) and select a perso...

I'm not sure how to include Starting Person in the Exclude If filters there. Every Exclude If filter has relationship set as Ancestor - of "this individual", with a checkmark on both inc. original individual and inc. spouses of relatives. Thank you for the name of that plugin, I will go check it out!

Hello Mike, After following your instructions, I have been able to do this seemingly succesfully for a few branches. Thanks! As for deleting individuals in the results tab: I had apparently misinterpreted the "working with query results" in the knowledge base, but hitting the delete there must only ...

@ Mike: I think I have been able to configure the query correctly with your instructions. I now have 225 results (instead of 289 before) and at first glance, it looks more like what I need. Just a question: what do you mean by repeating the 2nd to 4th filter a number of times? Does this mean I need ...

Sorry for any confusion. I did indeed ask to just remove all the ancestors of a certain individual, which is easily enough done with the splitter command. But then I realized that, for some families, I have not only listed the ancestors but also brothers and sisters of those ancestors, and their des...

Yes it seems I have clearly misunderstood how the Query works then. But I'm not sure how I can delete all descendants of a certain ancestor then, while at the same time excluding a certain individual and his descendants. Because if I do 2 separate queries, then in the first query the person I don't ...

Hello, Thanks for your response and help. I'm attaching two screenshots, one for each filter I set up. The first "add if a descendant"... is intended to list all descendants of an ancestor, so a whole family I want to remove, except for the individuals I want to exclude in the second filter. The sec...

Hello again, I have in the meantime tried some things. The Split Tree Helper command does indeed do a nice job to just delete an entire line of ancestors not needed on my website. But indeed, as you say the other descendants of those deleted ancestors still remain, so a query would work better. The ...

Thank you everyone for your replies and your help! I will briefly explain how I work: on a daily basis, I use the Geneanet website to update my family tree information, as I find it very user-friendly and it allows me to access it from any device with internet connection. The idea is that I do an ex...

It concerns thousands of individuals so manually adding them would be practically impossible. So what I'm hoping to find is a solution where I just add some criteria and then everything is done automatically. The thing is that I want to display my GEDCOM on a website, but only the part relevant to a...

Hello, Thanks for your reply. The thing is that I want to export everyone with a certain family name, their partners and those partners parents & grandparents (as well as other marriages of those partners). So I think that for this, I would not need to start with myself and all my direct ancestors, ...

Hello, I was wondering if the following would be possible with FH, and if yes, then how? I would like to export to a GEDCOM file all the descendants of a certain individual, plus: - The ancestors of the partners of these descendants to a certain number of generations (e.g. only the parents of the pa...

I have, in the meantime, purchased the software so I can use it again on my regular computer. Which is much easier, and also supports the developer of the FH software. This CSV import that I am working on will probably not be finished within a month anyway :D I am currently testing with the Flexible...