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Wow, what an excellent set of tips! I have a much more up-to-date tree on
FamilySearch, and I have been daunted by the idea of merging it back into
my Gramps tree. I can use this piecewise approach to save me a lot of time.
Thanks, Users!
-deborah
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 12:51 PM Enno Borgsteede <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 07-03-2022 om 16:29 schreef [email protected]:
> > A minor refinement...
> >
> > When you don't have a simple applicable custom filter rule (like direct
> Ancestors or Descendants), you have to find another way to winnow out the
> grain from the chaff.
>
> True, and I have a few other ideas.
>
> So, for example, when you want to import an in-law family from another
> tree, you can set up a filter (1) to select all the people that share an
> ancestor with a selected in-law, adding another one (2) that selects all
> spouses of the results of the first (1).
>
> And when you want to include in-laws of in-laws, there is another trick,
> which starts with selecting all people that are related to a gateway
> in-law. If you apply that right away, it may include lots of people on your
> own side of the family, if they are in the GEDCOM too, but you can prevent
> that by disconnecting the gateway cousin, the one that you already have,
> from his other relations. This is a nice way to prevent the is related
> filter from including those that you already know, provided that there are
> no other gateways in the imported tree.
>
> This may require some experimenting, so I recommend to import the output
> data.gramps into another empty tree to see whether you really like it. And
> if you do, import it into your main tree and merge the gateway cousin(s).
>
> Regards,
>
> Enno
>
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