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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Creating GEDCOM
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:37:33 -0400
In-Reply-To: <82.2b548ee0.2ffb190a@aol.com>

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:58:18 EDT, wrote:
> Thanks to Terry, Pat and Joe, I think I've got it!. My
> first problem was struggling with the focus
> group....but, success, finally, I've created a focus
> group with only 6 generations and their spouses! (it was
> not limiting the generations). The trick is that after
> you've selected the number of generations and added
> others, you must deselect generations, select all and
> add spouses, then add others.

Well, yes... Every time you click the Add Others button you are
telling it to add the ancestors, descendants, and/or spouses of the
selected persons. Once you have added, say the descendants of a
person, if you leave descendants selected and tell it to Add Others
again, it will do just that for the persons you now have selected in
the list.

The idea is that you can repeatedly add people related in the way you
specify. Thus for example, you might add a group of ancestors, then
selecting them and adding their descendants for one generation to add
the siblings of the ancestors, then select them and add spouses of
those siblings, then select them and add ancestors for one generation
to add the parents of the spouses, etc. It's a very flexible tool,
designed to collect a wide variety of different groupings that a user
might need to assemble.

> Question: Can you create a Project from a Focus Group?
> (and avoid having to create the GEDCOM a second time?)

Yes. Use the List of People report, set to use the Focus Group as the
"Subjects." Click Options, and on the Secondary Output tab, check the
option to create a new Project, and enter a name for the project.

Terry Reigel

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