Excluding living relatives

AnneEast · Post by **AnneEast** » 29 Aug 2007 22:37

I have sucessfully made a gedcom file for all the relatives of one of my gggg grandfathers. I used the split tree helper. Now I want to exclude the most recent generations (those who could be living) so I can send it to a contact.

I must be being very thick tonight but I can't seem to do it![confused] Please could someone explain in simple terms? I think I need to flag living people but how, and what then? I really have tried [frown]

Anne

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pricero1 · Post by **pricero1** » 30 Aug 2007 07:27

Anne,

This article shows one way of doing it:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... ews&id=139

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 30 Aug 2007 08:04

Another option is to download one of the Living Queries from the Store and use that to set the flag for living people and then check it's results and correct any flags which you know to be wrong.

You can then use the split tree helper to delete everyone with the living flag set.

JonAxtell · Post by **JonAxtell** » 30 Aug 2007 08:56

However the split tree helper function (STHF) does not help in terms of removing details from living people. Strangley FH does does this for living people elsewhere in the program - in the generation of a website. Another silly inconsistency in FH.

AnneEast · Post by **AnneEast** » 30 Aug 2007 09:27

Thank you, everyone for coming to my rescue. I think I was too tired to read the Help instructions properly!

Robin your method was exactly what I wanted. I had it done in 5 minutes. Thank you so much - I will make sure I have saved this method of creating a file which only contains those I want it to do. Fantastic!!! [smile]

Anne

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