* Setting up extracts of GEDCOM files

[trinity]

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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[Jane]

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.

[trinity]

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.

[IanM]

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

[Jane]

Not just yet.