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Post by leonard on Jan 23, 2011 18:21:56 GMT -5
I am currently preparing reports for my mother's side of the family, and I have managed to tag all persons from her side of my tree. Having prepared a dictionary of all tagged persons, I realized that I had loads of entries with little or no data--descendancy dead ends, so to speak. I have begun untagging many of these, so that they don't take up space with individual entries, but will still appear in a family and have a listing in the index. I noticed that quite a bit of data will still stick with an untagged person, as long as a parent or spouse is tagged. I've been doing this one person at a time--it's slow. My question is, then, what data for untagged family members of a tagged person persist in the dictionary? What is the most efficient tagging to achieve this? I'm looking for all individuals to appear, but not necessarily with individually numbered listings, since they can be found in a RTF format dictionary. I hope my goal is clear!
Thanks,
Leonard
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Post by leonard on Jan 23, 2011 19:49:58 GMT -5
Excuse my editing skills, please! My heading should read "concise and comprehensive dictionary"!
Thanks!
Leonard
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Post by Howard Metcalfe on Jan 24, 2011 13:36:55 GMT -5
I am currently preparing reports for my mother's side of the family, and I have managed to tag all persons from her side of my tree. Having prepared a dictionary of all tagged persons, I realized that I had loads of entries with little or no data--descendancy dead ends, so to speak. I have begun untagging many of these, so that they don't take up space with individual entries, but will still appear in a family and have a listing in the index. I noticed that quite a bit of data will still stick with an untagged person, as long as a parent or spouse is tagged. I've been doing this one person at a time--it's slow. My question is, then, what data for untagged family members of a tagged person persist in the dictionary? What is the most efficient tagging to achieve this? I'm looking for all individuals to appear, but not necessarily with individually numbered listings, since they can be found in a RTF format dictionary. I hope my goal is clear! Thanks, Leonard Hi Leonard, Only entries for tagged people appear in a dictionary. Of course, info for their parents, partners and children appear within their entries. This is the same info that appears in Register, Ahnentafel and Lineage reports for the same entries. (In fact, the program's code is reused in each of these.) Untagged people will not have separate entries. If all you want is to tag and report on your mother's side of the family, I suggest you make your mother the current person and then choose Tag menu > Ancestral Branch of This Person. This will work nicely unless someone on your mother's side married someone on your father's side in which case you'll get a mess of other people. If not, then you're OK. As to the inclusion of people in your mother's branch that are "dead ends" and have little or no data, I guess you'll have to just manually untag them if you don't want separate entries for them. Best, Howard |
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