Hello people, I have a problem when I export individuals to another genealogy program in that while I can have individuals marked as Private on an age exclusion basis in BK, I can't yet export individuals who for various reasons don't want their information shared about themselves or possibly I don't want them shared yet because I want to investigate something about them further. At present with BK7 there doesn't seem to be a system where I can specifically mark individuals as Private (i.e. do not send details about this person to the GEDCOM file but allow for recordkeeping of details for this person to be maintained in the BK program like you would for any other no matter how many times you export excluded information, do reports or group sheets on, etc.) The only workaround I can see for this at present is to keep 2 databases of the information you want to GEDCOM export and physically change the individual names to read Private and remove any events/facts that will display about each individual in one database and not in the other and always use the excluded database to send GEDCOM exports from. This is a kind of boggy approach to handling this I believe. I would gladly publish the details in BK if there was a system that would cater better for handling situations like that on the web but at the moment there's not. It seems that I have to make improvisations in BK to adjust and convert them over as, for now, it still seems worthwhile going to other software to publish. Does John have a bandaid yet to assist with sorting out this dilemma or is work in this area still some time away? I am still finding it frustrating as you can probably pick up in this message! Do other readers have any suggestions for me dealing with this better? Hoping that there is a process out there that will in time make this procedure a lot easier. Thoughts and ideas are welcomed. Thank you for reading this. Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. [email protected]

To Andrew Jackett I am working on a way to mark individual people's data as private to prevent exporting it to gedcom. I will let you know when it is available. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Jackett To: John Steed ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 2:40 PM Subject: [BK] GEDCOM Export of individuals marked as Private Hello people, I have a problem when I export individuals to another genealogy program in that while I can have individuals marked as Private on an age exclusion basis in BK, I can't yet export individuals who for various reasons don't want their information shared about themselves or possibly I don't want them shared yet because I want to investigate something about them further. At present with BK7 there doesn't seem to be a system where I can specifically mark individuals as Private (i.e. do not send details about this person to the GEDCOM file but allow for recordkeeping of details for this person to be maintained in the BK program like you would for any other no matter how many times you export excluded information, do reports or group sheets on, etc.) The only workaround I can see for this at present is to keep 2 databases of the information you want to GEDCOM export and physically change the individual names to read Private and remove any events/facts that will display about each individual in one database and not in the other and always use the excluded database to send GEDCOM exports from. This is a kind of boggy approach to handling this I believe. I would gladly publish the details in BK if there was a system that would cater better for handling situations like that on the web but at the moment there's not. It seems that I have to make improvisations in BK to adjust and convert them over as, for now, it still seems worthwhile going to other software to publish. Does John have a bandaid yet to assist with sorting out this dilemma or is work in this area still some time away? I am still finding it frustrating as you can probably pick up in this message! Do other readers have any suggestions for me dealing with this better? Hoping that there is a process out there that will in time make this procedure a lot easier. Thoughts and ideas are welcomed. Thank you for reading this. Andrew Jackett of New Zealand. [email protected]