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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Focus problem
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 23:51:58 -0500
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Garry F Bell wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have been sent a large (8000 names) GEDCOM file which I have opened in a
>new Dataset. Approx. 1500 of them are just names and nothing else - no
>events, relationships or anything. Just a subject's name. As I want to move
>these individuals into a Dataset of their own what focus formula would I
>use?

You might try List of People (LOP) report Focus tab filter like:
Father *ID# Equals 0 AND
Mother*ID# Equals 0 AND
N of Children Equals 0 AND
N of Spouses Equals 0 END

This still may pick up any person(s) that have a non-Primary parent. But
this should be a small number (if any). I would suggest that you use the
above filter to set a Custom Flag to Y (when the default is N. Then run a
LOP report creating the new data set based on the Flag equal Y. This would
create the new data set with the 1500 persons.

One caveat -- the above will not remove the 1500 from your old data
set. If you want to do that (without doing it one at a time), generate a
LOP report creating a new data set based on the Flag (above) being set to
N. If that data set is correct, make a final backup of your old data
set. Now, open the new data set just created (the one w/o the 1500),
select File=>Copy from the top menu, and enter the file path and name of
the old data set in the Destination field ("dataset.tmg"). This will
overwrite the old data set (with the 1500 and all others) with the new data
set (without the 1500 but with all others). You may now delete the new
data set created second above. This overwriting really just has the effect
of deleting the old data set and renaming the newest one as the old name.

Hope this helps -

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