Dick Cazier wrote: > I need some help. > > I have a basic database of over 30,000 individuals. Many of them are not related in any way. The reason is I recorded neighbors of my ancestors, and their genealogy; because their close proximity to my ancestors, I hoped to find marriage ties. In some I did, but mostly didn't. I posted the entire database to RootsWeb, thinking it would help others and thereby my hundreds of hours of research would not be wasted. It wasn't. > > Now I'm at the point where I want to make a separate database that includes just those to whom I have some relationship. I want to include the genealogy of people who married into the family, their ancestry and the descendants of their siblings. > > It looks like a rather complicated job. Can someone give me some help/hints/instruction on the easiest, simplest way to do this? Thanks. > Dick Cazier > Lakewood, CO > I _think_ it's sort of not complicated ... pick yourself, then ADVANCED SEARCH, and select (1) all ancestral-related AND (2) all descendant-related. One of those two will pick up everyone who has even the slightest link to anyone in the database. Now GED that out and create a new database into which you IMPORT the GED. OTOH, if you linked the neighbors to one of your ancestors as a DISPROVEN CHILD (which I've seen some folks do), you're right, it's rather complicated. (g) Then you get to search on that relationship and UNlink all those dudes before you do the other bit I mentioned above. Try not to do this New Year's Eve. ;) Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.