Splitting a File Using the All-in-One Tree
Let's suppose that you are a married female and your Family File contains information on both your family and your husband's family. You come into contact with one of your husband's relatives and you want to share just his side of the family with this person because they aren't interested in your ancestors.
The following directions will allow you to prune off everyone in your husband's family. Unlike regular descendant and ancestor trees which only show you the direct bloodline, the All-in-One tree will allow you to gather everyone related to your husband, not just the bloodline relatives.
- Start Family Tree Maker and open the Family File containing the individuals you wish to put into a separate file.
- Go to the Family Page of your parents and place the cursor in your name in the list of children.
- From the People menu choose Fix Relationship Mistakes and then Detach Child.
- Go to your husband's Family Page and place your cursor in his name.
You can use the Index of Individuals to find him.
- From the View menu choose All-in-One Tree.
- Once the tree has been generated go to the Contents menu and select Options.
- Remove the check mark from Show Unrelated Trees and place a checkmark in the Show Unconnected Step-Family Trees box.
- Press OK to reformat the tree with your new option settings.
- From the File menu choose Copy/Export Individuals in Tree.
- Give the file you are creating a name, make a note of the location where you choose to save your file and press the Save button.
- Now, open the file you just created and make sure that it has everyone in it that you want.
- You now have a couple of options on creating the proper type of file to share.
- If the person has the same or newer version of Family Tree Maker, open the file you just created and use the Backup Family File command in the File menu to create a compressed back (*.FBC) file.
- If the person has an older version, open the file you just created follow the instructions found in knowledge base article #01155 on Sharing Files with Older Versions.
- If the person doesn't use Family Tree Maker open the file you just created and follow the instructions in knowledge base article #01617 on Exporting a File to GEDCOM.