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

Dick, It seems to me that you could export a gedcom file, select yourself, and All Related. Then create a new PAF file with a new name and import that gedcom. The new file should only contain yourself and the people who are related to you in some way. This becomes your new working file, and the old file gets stored on a CD or in a special folder for files that you are not currently working on. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Cazier" <[email protected]> To: "PAF5 Users" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:58 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Separating Databases > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.6/1150 - Release Date: 11/24/2007 5:58 PM > >

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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > With PAF's powerful selection mechanisms there are usually more than one way to do things. I think Bill B.'s instructions are more clear than this will be but I present this as a mental exercise: Open your database. Use File | SaveAs to make a new copy with a new name (You never want to make drastic moves like dropping a bunch of people with out a backup. Making a new copy of the database under a new name will leave the old copy as your 'backup'.) In the new database select yourself. Then on the Search Menu select Advanced Focus/Filter. That will open a dialog box. Your name should be showing in the list window and should be highlighted. In the lower left part of that dialog box there is a region labeled 'Relationship Filter'. In the pulldown list select 'All'. Then click the 'Select' button. You should see a 'caret' appear before every name in the list window. Now pulldown the list again and select 'All Related'. Now press the 'Deselect' button. The caret in front of the names should disappear except for people who are un-related to you. Now you can use the 'Delete' button to delete all those unrelated people that have carets in front of their names. For people who want to keep the same RIN number forever this method is better than Bill B's. But Bill's method reclaims the space used by the delete names. My method will leave the .paf file the same size as it was before you delete the unrelated people.