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Post by Howard Metcalfe on Dec 8, 2006 17:35:28 GMT -5
If you have added Grandpa John's ancestors, either manually, or by a GEDCOM import (not recommended -- see the FAQ on Importing GEDCOMs into an existing file), and then through later research you discover they weren't really Grandpa John's ancestors, you don't have to delete them one by one. You can delete them all at once.
Make Grandpa John the current person. Choose Tag menu > Tag Ancestral Branch of This Person. Grandpa John will also be tagged, but you don't want to delete him, so choose Tag menu > Remove Tag from This Person (or press command-T).
Now choose Person menu > Delete All Tagged People. All of Grandpa's forebears and all of the people related to them in your file (their families, in-laws, etc.) will be deleted.
One caveat: Make sure that you have not linked any of the these erroneous ancestors or their relatives back somehow into the rest of Grandpa John's relatives -- if you did, they will also be selected for deletion since they are indirectly related. Usually you won't have done this.
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Post by gvanecek on Jul 21, 2010 0:23:14 GMT -5
I am new to PAWriter. Could you tell me how to delete individual persons please.
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Post by Howard Metcalfe on Jul 21, 2010 17:41:19 GMT -5
I am new to PAWriter. Could you tell me how to delete individual persons please. Make each persons the current person and choose Person menu > Delete This Person.
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