Jim 0 Report post Posted March 16 Over the years, I've built 1 large database that includes both my family and my wife's. I have had thoughts of spliting the 2 families and wondering if there is a right way and a wrong way to accomplish this. Has anybody out there ever done this with TMG v9? Is it even possible? Maybe someone out there can give some advice as to how to approach this task if possible at all. Maybe you can just tell me if I'm crazy for trying... Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
svhous 0 Report post Posted March 17 Do you not have children or plan to have any? Your children will want to know both sides of their ancestry. And, depending on where you and your wife are from, you may share ancestors, generations back. I discovered my parents were 6th and 7th cousins through their lines to early New England. If that happens, you will wind up having to enter information twice with two trees. Most responses to this question (comes up often) that I've see, discourage splitting or setting up separate trees. - Sally Houston Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindsay Graham 0 Report post Posted March 18 Jim, I'd think very carefully about the pros and cons of splitting your database. As Sally Houston says, most TMG users discourage splitting for a whole variety of reasons. The most important (from my perspective) is that you don't need to. I have a database of some 6,000 people belonging to several different family lines. I use flags to differentiate those different families and that works very well indeed. If you want to find out more, I'd suggest you subscribe to the TMG email list where you can look through the archives and/or ask for elaboration from the many knowledgeable people on that list (many more than I think now use this forum). Go to https://tmg-l.groups.io/g/main Lindsay Graham, Canberra, Australia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lee 0 Report post Posted July 3 I have split of a number of subsets of my main project for sharing with other researchers or for temporary use. The usual way I do it is to create a Focus Group of the persons that should be included. I then create a List of People report based on the Focus Group and use the Secondary Output of the report to create a new data set. I the review the new data set to see if everyone is correctly included. I often find that a few others should be included and I just copy them from the older data set to the newer one. Lee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
