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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Fw: Filtering and Sub Projects
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:23:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <003b01c46058$50606660$4802a8c0@Belkin>


On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:16:29 -0400, Brent Morgan wrote:

> Hello TMG List: I have one rather large project that I
> would like to divide into two or more projects. I want
> to take person # 5 and person #6 and work projects based
> on their individual descendancys (if that's a word).

Yes, you can do that.

> There are several people before these that do not have a
> descendant interest at the present time.

By "before" you mean their ancestors, or ??? Are they to be included
in the new projects?
>
> I am assuming that I should go through the project for
> decendants of # 5 and mark all of his ancestors with a 3
> on the descendant interest flag. Then I should be able
> to create a new project with these folks. Then I would
> go back and do the same for the descendants of # 6.

You could use the Descendant Interest flag, but I'd create a new flag
for the purpose, with values of N,Y. The main issue is exactly who do
you want to include in the "descendants?" Only the actual descendants,
or also their spouses? How about parents of the spouses? Other spouses
of those spouses? Children by their "other spouses?" How about
unrelated witnesses to events any of the above are linked to?

Any of these are possible, but you have to be clear exactly who you
want to include to get the results you expect. Once you decide that,
and choose either the existing Descendant Interest flag or create a
new one, you set the flag to the assigned value for those you want to
include, then use the List of People report with a filter for that
flag and value, and a Secondary output of New Project to create the
new project.

If the number of descendants involved is quite small you could set the
flag manually. But if there are very many you will want to use the
List of People report and it's Secondary output to change the flags.
You might find my article on using the LoP report to create a
related-by flag helpful in figuring out how to do that if you are not
familiar with the process - it's at
http://tmg.reigelridge.com/related-by.htm -- If you have further
questions, tell us exactly what you are trying to do and we can
provide more specific details.

One thought -- there's a bug in the current release with using custom
flags with filters, so perhaps using the Descendant Interest flag
would be a better choice until that's fixed.

Terry Reigel


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