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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Deleting an erroneous line
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 13:50:55 -0400
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At 01:11 PM 5-7-2002 -0400, Jane Sarles wrote:
>Long ago I added a line that appeared to be mine and has since been
>disproved as related. There are many many descendants of that line. I
>can't quite figure out how to delete them other than going through and
>deleting "person" one by one, which would take many days. I feel sure there
>must be a better way. I could make a flag that says "bad" and mark all the
>descendants of the first guy, but can I then find a place that allows me to
>delete all those with a certain flag?

You can't outright "delete" them, but you can create a new dataset which
excludes them. Set the flag as you propose, then do a List of People (LOP)
with focus Flag Bad=N, and secondary output "Create New Data Set". Follow
the prompts to give the set a name. This now becomes your primary data set.

Once you've looked through it and verified that it has everything you want
in it (and nothing you don't), you can delete your old dataset and give the
new one the old one's name if you want.


Joe
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