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From: Allen Mellen <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: ancestral subset
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 05:51:18 -0500

Ronald G. Heroux wrote:
I'd like to send a relative a subset of a common ancestor and all of her
ancestors as well as their spouses and all of the children of the
ancestors. I can't find a way to include all the children of her
ancestors. Any ideas?

There is a description of how to do this on Lee Hoffman's TMG Helps page.
There are also some relevant hints on my page.

Essentially, it takes two passes of the List of People, and the use of a flag.
If you ahve the ancestors identified by swtting a flag, call it Selected =
Y, then you nedd to run a List of People with
Secondary Output: Change Flag Selected to Y
Focus Filter:
Selected Flag equals Y END
and then add their descendants for 1 generation.

To pick up the spouses of the children takes another pass.

Then split the databse using the Selected Flag.

Hope this helps
Allen Mellen, 90 LaSalle Street Apt 10F, New York, NY 10027
Telephone: (212) 663-8223 Fax: (212) 202 6007 Mailto:
See my TMG resource page at http://www.geocities.com/allenmellen/tmg.html

Want to go to China next fall? Under $3500 for three weeks (from New
York). See Confucius' hometown - site of the longest continuous family
record on earth (77 generations), see the only pyramid in China, climb Tai
Shan (Mt. Tai), visit a former Methodist mission - now an active church,
visit a high school, as well as the more usual sights.


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