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I need to output a GED file of a family including all the children for each ancestor. But I cannot figure out how to do that easily. Is there a way to do that? In other words I want to output a piece of the database for one person's ancestry but including all his children, and all his ancestor's complete family including their children. I haven't figure out a way to do that yet.

Paul

 

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Hi Paul,

I do this a lot. For me, the easiest way is to create a new Project using the List of People report, then running a Gedcom from that.

Doris

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Another option, Paul, is to create a Focus Group of the desired people, since once you select a set of people you can add ancestors or descendants as desired.  If I understand what you want, I would start with a Focus Group of only the one person and select (click on) them.  Now check only Ancestors and set the Generations  number high (e.g. 250) and Add them.  That gets all the person's ancestors.  Next "Select All" the people now in this Focus Group, uncheck Ancestors, and Check Descendants BUT set the number to only ONE so you only get the children of all these ancestors (including the children of the person).  After you Add those children you may wish to "Select All" the people now in this Focus Group, uncheck Descendants, and check Spouses to get all these people's spouses.   You could "Save" this Focus Group to some name, or simply do the Export now and in "Step 4 Export what people" choose "People in the Focus Group"

Hope this gives you ideas,

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Okay I was thinking of doing it the second way with a list of people and 1 descendant.

Here is the situation. When I started my genealogy research some 40 years ago I had a plan in mind. The plan went south but... so I have a database of 66,000 names. Those names are basically all Acadian records from the archives and parish records of the southern part of the province in New Brunswick, Canada. So far so good. My genealogy is within it. Also so far so good. I have noble families. Not so good because they go way way back. So I tried the first way with the project explorer but I found that even selecting all of them didn't get them all. The reason was I had to open each of the collapsed families to select them. Otherwise the main families were selected but not the children. No way I was going to open up 3000 individuals and click each one... yup... you heard it right. So I was playing around with a whole bunch of different things and then I crashed the database. I restored it from backup. I lost a bit of stuff but basically everything is okay. So I was kind of leery about trying that again. Weird stuff kept happening until I simply gave up and restored the backup.

Now the first thing I tried was what Doris said. I did a list of people and ran the GED from that. I did a simple list of people who were ancestors of mine. But it didn't get the children of the families I wanted. I couldn't figure that part out. Then I tried the project explorer and select all of them but that didn't work either and I crashed the database somehow. 

Tomorrow I will give the Focus group a try. And let you know how I make out. I thought of the 1 descendant option a day ago but didn't think it could be that simple so I didn't try it.

Paul

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The method that worked for me was this. I added myself to the focus group. Then I added my ancestors. Then I tried to add descendants but nothing happened. Zip.

Then I thought okay what if I select all of the focus group individuals first and then add 1 descendants... and that worked perfectly.  So that worked. Thanks guys. I wouldn't have figured it out without you.

Paul

 

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On 7/18/2019 at 9:12 AM, Paul Leger said:

Then I thought okay what if I select all of the focus group individuals first and then add 1 descendants...

Glad you recalled my directions to:
"Select All" the people now in this Focus Group, uncheck Ancestors, and Check Descendants BUT set the number to only ONE...

The Focus Group actions of Add Descendants, Ancestors, and Spouses only work on the selected people in the current Focus Group. That is the key.

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So that worked. Thanks guys. I wouldn't have figured it out without you.

You are most welcome, Paul, glad to hear you got what you wanted.

Michael

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