I want to make a separate project for one of the persons i my database. I want to save as a new project with the person + spouses, children and their spouses and children. In short: Everything! How do I do that? And will this tree be deleted in my actual database. If not, can I select to do that if I wish to do so … except for the focus person, spouses and children? -- Kind regards Kurt Hansen

At 3/8/2018 23:56, Kurt Hansen - Danacord wrote >I want to make a separate project for one of the >persons i my database. I want to save as a new >project with the person + spouses, children and >their spouses and children. In short: Everything! > >How do I do that? And will this tree be deleted >in my actual database. If not, can I select to >do that if I wish to do so … except for the >focuus person, spouses and children? >-- There are a number of ways to split a project, but most are variations of each other. Probably the most used methods are based on the List of People report and its Secondary Output feature. You first identify the persons to be split out. There are three ways to do this: 1. Select and highlight the persons in the Project Explorer. 2. Create a Focus Group of the persons. 3. Create a Filtered Group in the List of People report. Once you have that, open the List of People report Definition Screen, and select that option as the Subject(s) of the report. If you want a listing of the persons selected, choose the Report Destination. Click on the [Options...] button to open that window. Make any desired selected here being sure to click on the Secondary Output tab, and selecting the Create New Project option entering the desired location and name for the new project. I keep all my projects in sub-folders of the User Data Files Projects folder -- one project to a sub-folder. As long as each project has a unique name, you can keep multiple project in a single folder. But, I prefer to keep them separate in case I want to store other files related to that project "with" the project. Having separate folders for each project also helps _me_ keep them separate mentally as well as facilitate any file management issues I might have. At this point, all that is left is to clicke on the [Options] window [OK] button, and then click on the [Create Report] button of the List of People Report Definition Screen. When it completes, your new project files will be where you selected in the Secondary Output. Once the new project is complete, the old project remains as it was. So the last step is the removal of the persons split out. There are two ways to do this. One is to create a new project that is essentially the reverse of what you just did above. This is probably the easiest way although creating Focus Groups or Filter Groups is usually more complex than just the small group split. This leaves the second method, which is manually deleting each person that is no longer desired in the project. In other words, it is not easy. This is by design so that you don't inadvertently delete data that you really want to keep. Lee

Thank you very much, Lee. I will take a look at it and return if I have any problems. — Regards Kurt Hansen > Den 9. mar. 2018 kl. 15.38 skrev Lee Hoffman <[email protected]>: > > At 3/8/2018 23:56, Kurt Hansen - Danacord wrote >> I want to make a separate project for one of the persons i my database. I want to save as a new project with the person + spouses, children and their spouses and children. In short: Everything! >> >> How do I do that? And will this tree be deleted in my actual database. If not, can I select to do that if I wish to do so > except for the >> focuus person, spouses and children? >> -- > > There are a number of ways to split a project, but most are variations of each other. Probably the most used methods are based on the List of People report and its Secondary Output feature. > > You first identify the persons to be split out. There are three ways to do this: > 1. Select and highlight the persons in the Project Explorer. > 2. Create a Focus Group of the persons. > 3. Create a Filtered Group in the List of People report. > > Once you have that, open the List of People report Definition Screen, and select that option as the Subject(s) of the report. If you want a listing of the persons selected, choose the Report Destination. Click on the [Options...] button to open that window. Make any desired selected here being sure to click on the Secondary Output tab, and selecting the Create New Project option entering the desired location and name for the new project. > > I keep all my projects in sub-folders of the User Data Files Projects folder -- one project to a sub-folder. As long as each project has a unique name, you can keep multiple project in a single folder. But, I prefer to keep them separate in case I want to store other files related to that project "with" the project. Having separate folders for each project also helps _me_ keep them separate mentally as well as facilitate any file management issues I might have. > > At this point, all that is left is to clicke on the [Options] window [OK] button, and then click on the [Create Report] button of the List of People Report Definition Screen. When it completes, your new project files will be where you selected in the Secondary Output. > > Once the new project is complete, the old project remains as it was. So the last step is the removal of the persons split out. There are two ways to do this. One is to create a new project that is essentially the reverse of what you just did above. This is probably the easiest way although creating Focus Groups or Filter Groups is usually more complex than just the small group split. This leaves the second method, which is manually deleting each person that is no longer desired in the project. In other words, it is not easy. This is by design so that you don't inadvertently delete data that you really want to keep. > > 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 > 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

I too have a file to split, and thanks for this info... My question: the focus person I want to put into a separate folder, leads back into the 1800's to the same parents as my original file. Will both files contain the information of the parents or will one of the files lose this information? -----Original Message----- From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 9, 2018 6:38 AM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Subject: [TMG] Re: How to split a project At 3/8/2018 23:56, Kurt Hansen - Danacord wrote >I want to make a separate project for one of the persons i my database. >I want to save as a new project with the person + spouses, children and >their spouses and children. In short: Everything! > >How do I do that? And will this tree be deleted in my actual database. >If not, can I select to do that if I wish to do so . except for the >focuus person, spouses and children? >-- There are a number of ways to split a project, but most are variations of each other. Probably the most used methods are based on the List of People report and its Secondary Output feature. You first identify the persons to be split out. There are three ways to do this: 1. Select and highlight the persons in the Project Explorer. 2. Create a Focus Group of the persons. 3. Create a Filtered Group in the List of People report. Once you have that, open the List of People report Definition Screen, and select that option as the Subject(s) of the report. If you want a listing of the persons selected, choose the Report Destination. Click on the [Options...] button to open that window. Make any desired selected here being sure to click on the Secondary Output tab, and selecting the Create New Project option entering the desired location and name for the new project. I keep all my projects in sub-folders of the User Data Files Projects folder -- one project to a sub-folder. As long as each project has a unique name, you can keep multiple project in a single folder. But, I prefer to keep them separate in case I want to store other files related to that project "with" the project. Having separate folders for each project also helps _me_ keep them separate mentally as well as facilitate any file management issues I might have. At this point, all that is left is to clicke on the [Options] window [OK] button, and then click on the [Create Report] button of the List of People Report Definition Screen. When it completes, your new project files will be where you selected in the Secondary Output. Once the new project is complete, the old project remains as it was. So the last step is the removal of the persons split out. There are two ways to do this. One is to create a new project that is essentially the reverse of what you just did above. This is probably the easiest way although creating Focus Groups or Filter Groups is usually more complex than just the small group split. This leaves the second method, which is manually deleting each person that is no longer desired in the project. In other words, it is not easy. This is by design so that you don't inadvertently delete data that you really want to keep. 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 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