how so u send part of the info in FTM

Hi Group
How do I send a part of my info. for example when someone on mothers side
whats info doesn't want info on father's side. Or and I don't want to send
living people.

Kerry Raymond...

In FTM, if you view a tree or a report on screen of any set people you want
to report, then you should find under the FILE menu an EXPORT-FILE option
that allows you to export the people contained in that tree or report. The
exact way you do it varies a bit between versions of FTM but the facility
has been in FTM for a long time now.

The challenge however is to construct a tree/report that contains exactly
the people on your mother's side (or whatever). There seems to be no direct
way to do this in FTM.

FTM do have the "Kinship Report" which includes the relatives of the primary
individual (and their spouses) plus the relatives of their spouse (but not
their spouses), so it isn't what you want. If only they gave you an option
to exclude the relatives of the spouse, but they don't!

Here are a couple of techniques I know of to do what you want to do. Assume
you want to send info on your mother's side.

1. Do a Kinship Report of your mother's mother. Export that group of
people. Do a Kinship Report of your mother's father. Export that group of
people. Now you have the people you want, but split over 2 files (with a
substantial overlap). Now merge these 2 files.

2. Make a list of all your mother's furtherest-back ancestors (the ones at
the top of the tree for whom you don't have parents). Go into View Custom
Report, and then use the Select Individuals as folllows. For each of the
furtherest-back ancestors, select that person and then click the
"Descendants>" button to add all your descendants. (You will see the list of
people growing numerically, but you can ignore any warnings that some of
them are already included -- this is not important). Once you have built up
the complete list of descendants of all your mother's ancestors, click OK to
get a listing of them. Then File > Export > Individuals in Report to get
them exported.

My personal preference is the 2nd approach (because merging files is more of
a hassle). I usually just print myself a tree of my mother's ancestors
first, and then with it in hand, progressively go through the
"furtherest-back" ancestors (looking down the page along the right-hand
side) adding their descendants into the list of selected individuals.

It would be nicer if there was a simpler way. If only they gave you some
options on View Kinship.

TIA Aileen