Family Historian User Group

Having recommended FH to a friend, he has challenged me to reduce (convert) a quite comprehensive GEDCOM file into an extract where each individual record contains only first name, last name, year of birth and town (not full address). I think I could do this by producing a report using custom query, but then I believe I can only store the results as a text file (report), rather than the GEDCOM with its relationships intact.
Is this possible, please.
Thanks.

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Seems a strange request.

You are quite correct in saying you can get a comma separated file like this. Res-privita could problably get pretty close to this required result with a gedcom.

Obviously a program to do this specific task would be pretty easy to code, but I can not think other than for loading on to GenesReunited you would want to do this.

Another option would be to write a query with all the events you want to delete and use the delete colomn option to delete the data, but that is not a quick or easy solution.

A strange request indeed, unless one wants to publish to GR - which you correctly anticipated. I have looked at RP and suggested my friend considers this and lets me know. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

The general form of this request is perhaps not so odd. I am trying to achieve something similar (precisely so that I CAN post an abbreviated GEDCOM on Genes Reunited and the like). While FH has good facilities for deleting complete individuals, what I can't seem to get it to do is to keep all the individuals but delete particular facts about them. I can write a query that produces an appropriate results set (Name; Record ID; Sex; Birth Baptism; Christening; Family as Spouse.Marriage; Death, Burial; Family as Child; Family as Spouse. But how can that results set be saved as a GEDCOM file in its own right that can then be published as an abbreviated record? Any suggestions? Thanks - Ian

Not just yet.