* Exporting Selected Information

[rfj1001]

I want to export the siblings and ancestors of a person so I can the resultant gedcom file to another person. (Probably about 20 records in total out of a couple of hundred.)

What would be the most straightforward way to do it.

TIA



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[SimonOrde]

The best way of doing this is to find a query that gives you all the people you want.  For example, 'Relations and 5 Nearest Relationships' might do it perhaps (don't worry about the columns - each row returned represents a record and its these records that matter for current purposes).  If that query is not exactly what you want, you could save it as a custom query and modify it to get exactly the set of people you want - or just write a new custom query from scratch.

Having got the query, make a copy of your GEDCOM file, and then open this copy and use 'Split Tree Helper' on the File menu to delete everyone that you don't want.  This is where the query you wrote comes in.  Click on 'Delete all Individual records NOT found by the Individual query below' and select your query as the query to use.  Choose other settings appropriately.  Your query will be run when you click on 'Delete'.  If your query takes any parameters (e.g. the 'root' person) you will be asked to supply them at this point.

As long as you are working on copies of your main file, you can experiment till you get the hang of it.  Just don't get confused and accidentally delete records from your main file though!  If you think there's any chance of that, take a backup first.

[SimonOrde]

P.S.  If you click on File > 'Split Tree Helper' that opens the Split Tree Helper dialog.  If you then press on the Help button, you will find a more detailed explanation of how to do exactly the kind of thing you are trying to do.