Exporting Part of a Tree

[Bernie Dodge]

Sorry if this is sub-newbie question. I'm still a beginner at this.

I have a family tree on Ancestry with over 500 entries that includes both my wife and my ancestors. I'm collaborating with one of my Irish first cousins to flesh out that side of the family and would like to send her a GEDCOM file that includes only our shared ancestors.

I've viewed the entire file in outline mode, added columns for birthdate and place and death date and place and selected descendent's view starting with one of our common ancestors in the 1800s. I exported the file and expected to see just my maternal grandmother's ancestors. Instead I got a small file with a handful of my wife's oldest ancestors. I've tried it several ways and continue to get the same result.

Clearly there's a hole in my understanding. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

[John Nairn]

To export a subset of your file, a good method is to create an Album, put all individuals you want to export into that album, and then export that Album. There are many tools to populate the album with the records you want. You only need the individuals, the export process will automatically include all records needed for a complete GEDCOM file.

Much information is in the GEDitCOM II Help window (in the Help menu)

* Information on creating and populating albums:

   Click “Record Albums” in the index on the left of the help window

* Information on exporting a GEDCOM file:

   1. Click “Opening, Saving, Mergine” in index on left of help window

   2. Click "Exporting GEDCOM Data on Other Export Features” in list of topic on the right that appears

   3. Click "Export a GEDCOM file or a subset GEDCOM File” in the new list of topics

   4. Finally click “Export a Subset of Your Genealogy Data” for all the details (sorry so many clicks needed)

Finally, you can check out the on-line tutorial on exporting part of a file to a GEDCOM file at

http://www.geditcom.com/tutorials/export.html

I have not checked this tutorial recently. It may not be up to date with current version of GEDitCOM II, but that and the above built-in help should have enough information.

Post again if still have questions.

Regards,

John Nairn

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[Bernie Dodge]

Thanks! Will try that.

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