Delete Descendants

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Permalink Reply by Ron Cannon on June 22, 2016 at 9:02am

First you need to find the ancestor that has all of the descendants you want to delete. Tag that person and then that person's descendant line but NOT the entire descendant line. Then you need to pick the first option. Once you have the people tagged, then TOOLS > ADVANCED DELETING and then delete everyone on that tag. You need to backup the file first because once those people are deleted they are gone and you can't get them back other than a backup.

Then you will need to go to VIEW > TREES. Click the REFRESH button. Now see if there are any stragglers that need to be deleted.

If you have any more questions feel free to email the Legacy software support team at   support@legacyfamilytree.com  

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Ron Cannon

Legacy Software Support Manager

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Permalink Reply by William Burlingame on June 22, 2016 at 9:18am

Ron, thank you very much for the advice.  I'm new to Legacy and it's been a while since I've done any genealogy research.  I recently had a niece ask about our family history and wanted to provide what I had to her.  Even though PAF was no longer available, it was still OK for my own personal use.  I needed to find a way to have her view my data.and the PAF site had Legacy as an alternative.  It seems to be much more robust than I'm used to, so I have a bit of a learning curve.  It also looks like I have many other errors to correct.

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