[oops] I am trying to remove all living people except myself from a copy of my tree in order to create a tree for the web. (I do not want to publish anything about living people as I would not be able to get all of their permission's) Is There a Query or another method that would allow me to do this, apart from goihg through 8000 individulas one by one and removing them !
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Have you tried the Living People Query in the Query Store? Personally I used that to Flag Living people (and check the results) and you can then use the Remove using Query in the export option to exclude people with the living flag set.
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Peter, very busy this morning but will try to find time this afternoon to post the sequence I go through (using queries, and a utility called Res Privata) to prepare a GEDcom for input to GEDmill.
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My steps to produce a 'cleansed' GEDcom are:
1. Copy the FH project directory and all contents excluding CreateWeb.FHA under the Settings sub-directory. ALL SUBSEQUENT STEPS USE THE COPY PROJECT.
2. Remap external links to not be relative (this is necessary for GEDmill to work properly with multimedia files -- if you only use the FH web generation you can omit this step).
3. Use the Split Tree Helper to delete:
[img]http://www.fhug.rjt.org.uk/images/uploads/Image28.jpg[/img]
I have a very few individuals flagged manually as private (usually where I know they are dead but they're part of 'scandals' that are recent enough to upset living people). The cut-off date of 1929 for everybody is to deliberately exclude my generation (most of whom are still alive) and their descendants, plus the younger members of my parents' generation (many of whom are also still alive). Choosing a similar cut-off date for your own data may not be possible -- I've erred on the side of caution, so it may mean that I exclude some people who are dead. I definitely don't include myself in my own tree!
4. Feed the results of the split tree helper into Res Privata which will identify any remaining living individuals on the basis of their birth/death details and rename them and/or remove all details that you decide to exclude. I tell Res Privata to rename as 'Private' anyone born after 1908 who doesn't have a death recorded and remove all data except their year of birth, sex and position in the tree, but it's reasonably flexible in what you can do [There's a copy of Res Privata in the Downloads - GEDcom utilities secion on this website].
5. Finally, I do a Manual check through my source citations, to check for identifiable names of living people and and replace these initials; if you do this as well in the original GEDcom it's only a really onerous task first time around.
Hope this helps -- I recommend experimenting to see what Res Privata can do for you.
1. Copy the FH project directory and all contents excluding CreateWeb.FHA under the Settings sub-directory. ALL SUBSEQUENT STEPS USE THE COPY PROJECT.
2. Remap external links to not be relative (this is necessary for GEDmill to work properly with multimedia files -- if you only use the FH web generation you can omit this step).
3. Use the Split Tree Helper to delete:
- all individuals not found by a custom query (called Individuals by website -- see below for details)
- all 'other records' that have no links
- all [[private]] notes
[img]http://www.fhug.rjt.org.uk/images/uploads/Image28.jpg[/img]
I have a very few individuals flagged manually as private (usually where I know they are dead but they're part of 'scandals' that are recent enough to upset living people). The cut-off date of 1929 for everybody is to deliberately exclude my generation (most of whom are still alive) and their descendants, plus the younger members of my parents' generation (many of whom are also still alive). Choosing a similar cut-off date for your own data may not be possible -- I've erred on the side of caution, so it may mean that I exclude some people who are dead. I definitely don't include myself in my own tree!
4. Feed the results of the split tree helper into Res Privata which will identify any remaining living individuals on the basis of their birth/death details and rename them and/or remove all details that you decide to exclude. I tell Res Privata to rename as 'Private' anyone born after 1908 who doesn't have a death recorded and remove all data except their year of birth, sex and position in the tree, but it's reasonably flexible in what you can do [There's a copy of Res Privata in the Downloads - GEDcom utilities secion on this website].
5. Finally, I do a Manual check through my source citations, to check for identifiable names of living people and and replace these initials; if you do this as well in the original GEDcom it's only a really onerous task first time around.
Hope this helps -- I recommend experimenting to see what Res Privata can do for you.