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From: "Jane Sarles" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Deleting an erroneous line
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:41:28 -0400
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The trouble is, Cathy, there are 1100 of them!

Jane




> I can't help you with the deletion, but I have a line which I am not sure
of
> either. Since it was a continuation of one of my ancestral lines, what I
> did to disconnect them was to remove the parents as primary, thus
separating
> the lines. To do this, you first have to create a second set of "phony"
> parents and swap them out for the parents you have as primary. Thus, the
> former primary parents will appear at the top of your person's event
screen,
> being replaced by the phony ones below which are now primary. I then
> deleted the phony parents, so it appears that no parents exist for this
> person. Then, I changed the parents now listed at the tope of the event
> screen to Father-Pos and Mother-Pos. This method would work as well
severing
> a son or daughter from his parents for a descendant line. You just go to
the
> person you want to severe, and delete the parental connection. You
wouldn't
> even have to create a set of phony parents like I did above if you are
sure
> the line is definitely not connected and never will be.
>
> I kept the people in my database because I have not proven or disproven
the
> link, but did not want them showing up on reports. You, however, could
> safely remove all these now without fear of damaging the rest of your
file.
> Unfortunately, I know of no way to do that deletion except one by one.
But,
> at least, if you can sever the line, that is one step further to your
goal!
> And, depending on your research range, you may want to keep this line in
> your database anyway for future reference in case it connects someplace
> else.
>
> Cathy
>
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>
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> ks
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>
> Grandparents are similar to a piece of string handy to have around and
> easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jane Sarles" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, 07 May, 2002 1:11 PM
> Subject: [TMG] Deleting an erroneous line
>
>
> > I really don't mean to presume on the expertise of those folks who are
so
> > willing to be helpful on this group, but I am sending questions as I
come
> to
> > problems, and there are more of those than I anticipated. I thought
doing
> > them one at a time would be less onerous than saving them up for one
long
> > quest. So.....
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Jane Sarles
> >
> >
> >
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