From: <ste...@gm...> - 2007-08-22 18:19:23
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> I'm not sure if this would help you or not, but what I always do is the f= ollowing: > > 1) Create a new custom person filter using "Edit->Person Filter Editor". > 2) Add a rule to the new filter: "General filters->Disconnected people". > 3) Save the filter with a name > 4) In the People view, turn on the filter sidebar and apply my new filter= . > The People view will now only display people who are not connected to any= other people. No, this doesn't do the same thing. Disconnected will look for individually disconnected people. When I use this filter, it finds zero disconnected people. In my case, I had families with parents and children, and I failed to connect the parents back to my tree. So there were no individually disconnected people, but nevertheless I knew I had people in the database that were disconnected from myself. > If you really just want people that are not related to you, do this: > > 1) Create a new custom person filter using "Edit->Person Filter Editor". > > 2) Add a rule to the new filter: "Ancestral filters->People with a common= ancestor with <person>". (choose yourself as the person) > 3) Check the option marked "Return values that do not match the filter ru= les" No, this doesn't do the same thing. This returns thousands of people -- all of the people in my database that married into the family for example. All I wanted were the handful of people where I had failed to add a link back to the main "tree". Worded differently, all of the people in my database should somehow be part of the same family tree, either directly, or because of a wedding/adoption/etc. Instead, I had 1 big tree with 99.9% of the people, and then several accidental smaller trees caused by missing links between a few parents & children. Brian, or anyone for that matter: can you give the plugin a try and let me know if it finds anyone? And if so, were the results accurate -- i.e., did it find a mistake in the database, or am I the only person with this problem? http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DUnsupported_Plugins#No= t_Related St=E9phane |