Ahhhhhh......Great work around to a tricky problem. I had thought of the excluding Private facts but forgot about using Data Options to change the facts for all individuals to Private. Duhh! Thanks for the response. BJ On 2/27/2014 10:06 AM, Rosemary Jones wrote: > First, make a complete backup of your file. > > Work with this backup file to ensure you don't mess up the primary file. > Restore this backup file giving it a new name. Working with this new file > ... > > Then go to Edit > Manage Facts. > > For each fact that you want to EXCLUDE from the GEDCOM highlight the fact > and click "Data Options". This will bring up a list of all occurrences of > the fact in your file. Click on "Check All" and then Mark Each Selected > Fact Private and then OK. > > Do this for every fact you don't want in the GEDCOM. Time consuming, > tedious, and error prone. Hence using the backup. > > At the end of this, File > Export > Gedcom 5.5 format and make sure you > have NOT selected the "Include Private Facts". Review what you have set in > the other buttons. Then OK. > > This, in theory, should do what you want. Try it with a subset of people. > Afterwards import the GEDCOM into FTM 2014 as another new file and check to > see this is what you wanted. > > Rosemary > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Hoke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Using FTM 2014, is it possible to create an FTM file that only has a >> limited >> number of facts in it, such as those related to each individual's name, >> birth date, and death date? That is, I would like to create a subset >> version of my FTM database in which all facts beside such things as name, >> birth date, and death date have been removed. I can't figure out a way to >> do this in FTM and haven't been able to find a GEDCOM editor providing such >> a capability. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It takes a village, BJ! Judy in Ocala > On Feb 27, 2014, at 7:18 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ahhhhhh......Great work around to a tricky problem. I had thought of > the excluding Private facts but forgot about using Data Options to > change the facts for all individuals to Private. Duhh! > > Thanks for the response. > > BJ > >> On 2/27/2014 10:06 AM, Rosemary Jones wrote: >> First, make a complete backup of your file. >> >> Work with this backup file to ensure you don't mess up the primary file. >> Restore this backup file giving it a new name. Working with this new file >> ... >> >> Then go to Edit > Manage Facts. >> >> For each fact that you want to EXCLUDE from the GEDCOM highlight the fact >> and click "Data Options". This will bring up a list of all occurrences of >> the fact in your file. Click on "Check All" and then Mark Each Selected >> Fact Private and then OK. >> >> Do this for every fact you don't want in the GEDCOM. Time consuming, >> tedious, and error prone. Hence using the backup. >> >> At the end of this, File > Export > Gedcom 5.5 format and make sure you >> have NOT selected the "Include Private Facts". Review what you have set in >> the other buttons. Then OK. >> >> This, in theory, should do what you want. Try it with a subset of people. >> Afterwards import the GEDCOM into FTM 2014 as another new file and check to >> see this is what you wanted. >> >> Rosemary >> >> >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Hoke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Using FTM 2014, is it possible to create an FTM file that only has a >>> limited >>> number of facts in it, such as those related to each individual's name, >>> birth date, and death date? That is, I would like to create a subset >>> version of my FTM database in which all facts beside such things as name, >>> birth date, and death date have been removed. I can't figure out a way to >>> do this in FTM and haven't been able to find a GEDCOM editor providing such >>> a capability. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message