Earlier on, it seemed wise to add to my tree anyone I could. Now, too often, someone writes me to say “Hey! We both have Gabiashvilis in our tree! That must be how we’re related!” (not to pick on the Georgians; simply, I love Georgian cuisine). But my Gabiashvilis are, like, 9g-grandparents of 3rd cousins of in-laws of a 7th cousin. I’d like to prune my tree of the “least-useful” people in it. I could prune everyone who’s not directly related to (the descendants of the ancestors of) my kid (the root person in my tree), but I don’t want to be quite that exclusive. It’s useful to have (whatever-distance) cousins’ spouses’ parents, for instance, because they provide triangulation information on that “branch” which is useful when tree-comparing-trying to figure out whether the Robert Wheeler in my tree is the same as the one in a DNA cousin’s tree. Can anyone think of a way to prune from a tree the most-distantly-related folks? Best, Eric OpenPGP <http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2> : 0x1AF7E6F2 ● Skype: oneota ● XMPP/OTR: berekum@jabber.ccc.de <mailto:berekum@jabber.ccc.de> ● Silent Circle: +1 312 614-0159

Eric, if you know someone who uses The Master Genealogist from Wholly Genes (it is no longer available for sale although many of us still use it), it provides extensive reporting capabilities that let you create a project, and GEDCOM, tailored to what you want. Filters are virtually unlimited. Doris On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Eric S Johnson via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Earlier on, it seemed wise to add to my tree anyone I could. > > > > Now, too often, someone writes me to say “Hey! We both have Gabiashvilis in > our tree! That must be how we’re related!” (not to pick on the Georgians; > simply, I love Georgian cuisine). But my Gabiashvilis are, like, > 9g-grandparents of 3rd cousins of in-laws of a 7th cousin. > > > > I’d like to prune my tree of the “least-useful” people in it. I could > prune everyone who’s not directly related to (the descendants of the > ancestors of) my kid (the root person in my tree), but I don’t want to be > quite that exclusive. It’s useful to have (whatever-distance) cousins’ > spouses’ parents, for instance, because they provide triangulation > information on that “branch” which is useful when tree-comparing-trying to > figure out whether the Robert Wheeler in my tree is the same as the one in > a > DNA cousin’s tree. > > > > Can anyone think of a way to prune from a tree the most-distantly-related > folks? > > > > Best, > > Eric > > OpenPGP > <http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2> > : > 0x1AF7E6F2 ● Skype: oneota ● XMPP/OTR: berekum@jabber.ccc.de > <mailto:berekum@jabber.ccc.de> ● Silent Circle: +1 312 614-0159 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >