Yes, and if you choose "ancestors of a person plus family of each ancestor" you'll get all your cousins, aunts & Aunts plus all the way up the line. OR is you're just looking for your cousins & aunts & uncles & ancestors but not their families choose "ancestors of a person" starting with yourself, then "descendants of a person" starting with your grandfather. Try one out and see if that's what you are looking for. Your own family might be doubled but you can delete those. Fran On 05/09/2012 1:17 PM, Gilles Paquette wrote: > Thanks Fran. > > I tried this method, but I also want to have my uncles' and aunts' > families included (cousins and their families, etc.). That's why I > thought that "going down" two branches instead of "going up" would give > me more information. In fact, my database contains more than my own > ancestry, and I want to extract only my own with all related persons. > > Gilles P > > Le 2012-09-05 12:55, Fran LaChance a ecrit : >> When making the gecom chose "selected people" then chose "ancestors of >> a person" and click on your own name. This will give both your >> parents' ancestors. There's also a choice for "Ancestors of a person >> plus family of each ancestor". >> >> you can also "split database" the same way - so whatever you're using >> it for will determine your choice. >> >> Fran L >> >> The Future is as Great as the Promises of God > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

What I want is to have the descent of the furthest ancestor on my father's side with the furthest ancestor on my mother's side in one file including all related persons. In other words, I want my ascendance with all the brothers and sisters of my ancestors with their own children. This way, I could exclude all persons in my database that are not really linked to me. Would it be easier to extract the data to a new subfolder rather than going through a gedcom file? Gilles

Try the flag utility Sent from my iPod On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Gilles Paquette <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> wrote: > What I want is to have the descent of the furthest ancestor on my > father's side with the furthest ancestor on my mother's side in one file > including all related persons. In other words, I want my ascendance > with all the brothers and sisters of my ancestors with their own > children. This way, I could exclude all persons in my database that are > not really linked to me. > > Would it be easier to extract the data to a new subfolder rather than > going through a gedcom file? > > Gilles > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

To Gilles On both the Split database and the Gedcom export, you can select multiple groups at the same time. Go to one of those and on the select person pick Descendants of your father's ancestor. Then click the same button again and pick Descenants of your mother's ancestor Each time you select more people, then number of selected people will increase. It will not duplicate people (if you select yourself two or three times, it will still copy you only one time) Then after you have selected everyone you want, THEN click Copy. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilles Paquette" <paquette.gdec@videotron.ca> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [BK] Adding branches to a Gedcom file > What I want is to have the descent of the furthest ancestor on my > father's side with the furthest ancestor on my mother's side in one file > including all related persons. In other words, I want my ascendance > with all the brothers and sisters of my ancestors with their own > children. This way, I could exclude all persons in my database that are > not really linked to me. > > Would it be easier to extract the data to a new subfolder rather than > going through a gedcom file? > > Gilles > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >