Would not a filter that included # of fathers = 0 # of mothers = 0 # children > 0 Bring up a list of EOL? If you wanted a more specific line you could change the last filter to Is an ancestor of ID# Sincerely, Don MacFarlane -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Chris Wright via Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:53 PM To: Lee Hoffman/KY; tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TMG] Project/data set "organization" Lee, that sounds like a really useful idea. Now that some of my lines are very long it certainly takes some time to navigate to the 'end of line' person when I am looking for them. Cheers Chris On 24 July 2015 at 02:35, Lee Hoffman/KY via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Something I have done for years in my projects is to create > End-of-Line (EOL) persons. They help me quickly got to the oldest > ancestor in a line. Further, I make all the EOL persons to be > siblings under a single EOL. So I can go to the single EOL person > and quickly come forward to any one line and all I need remember is > the single EOL person's ID#. The arrangement is like this: > Single EOL Person (ID# 100) > EOL Brown (ID# 2500) > EOL Clay (ID# 7487) > EOL Hoffman (ID# 9942) > EOL Jones (ID# 2700) > EOL O'Rear (ID# 15602) > EOL Smith (ID# 5523) > EOL Wyatt (ID# 36582) > With over 56,000 persons in my main data set, I have some 400 > different EOL persons. An EOL person is one have no parents, but > begins a line of descendants. (I have many persons without parents > who are witnesses to events, spouses of descendants, lodgers in a > census household or otherwise are only connected for informational > purposes. I don;t consider these to be EOL persons). > > Over time, I have attempted to research the EOL persons under each > EOL line and try to trace where those might connect. For example, > under EOL Clay, at one time, I had four or five different Clay lines > that seemingly were unrelated. Concentrating on them, I was able to > find where those lines connected and I now have only one Clay line > that is under the EOL Clay person. On the other hand, my EOL Jones > line has some 70 EOL persons as "children" and I doubt that I can > connect them all together. I may get the number down by ten or so, > (if I'm lucky) but it will still have a lot of unconnected persons. > > Besides quickly finding any one EOL person, this helps organize my > research. Two reports are helpful. One is a List of People report > based in the Single EOL Person and the descendants for one or two > generations. The second report is Descendants Chart for the Single > EOL Person for 2 generations. This give me a quick overview of all > my EOL people. I will occasionally do a 3 generation version of this > (to screen) to get a greater view of some of the lines. > > After I have done quite of bit of research and data entry, I will > work with these reports to see if the new information can help tie > people together. Often I will find some people are duplicates who > can be merged and thus reduce the EOL lines or I can add more > information to one EOL person which will help in eventually > connecting that person with another EOL person. > > One way to help find the EOL persons is to set a Custom EOL Flag > based on a List of People report using a filter like: > Father ID# =Equals 0 AND > Mother ID# =Equals 0 END > I then went through that report and crossed off (reset the Flag) > those that were just Witnesses, etc. This then gave me a few hundred > persons who were candidates for creating EOL Persons. > > This process may not work for everyone, but has helped me - > > Lee > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Wright http://www.chriswright.id.au https://sites.google.com/site/wrightholidays/ http://coolgarra-trips.blogspot.com/ The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message