Re: Merging from a GEDCOM file

On 07/03/2022 20:50, Enno Borgsteede 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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See also:   Comments 2 and 3 in "Example 7. All people 
related to me but not my wife"

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Example_filters#Example_7._All_people_related_to_me_but_not_my_wife

Doug
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