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I would like to be able to highlight just the Male line in a tree. Is there any way to "Select Ancestors" or "Select Descendants" but restrict the selection to a particular gender.
This could be useful for exploring DNA links.
Bob
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bobc (10/11/2008)
Is there any way to "Select Ancestors" or "Select Descendants" but restrict the selection to a particular gender.Yes, you can using the Table Layout. Thre are the steps: - Click on the toolbar button Select Ancestors or Select Descendants.
- Bring the Table Layout (Ctrl+T)
- Invert the selection (Ctrl+I
 ), which sill select everyone not ancestors or descendants. - Click on the button
 ur use Shift+Del to hide the inverted selection. - Now, the Table Layout only displays what you selected. Click on the Gender colum to group all males and females together.
- Select all males within the Table Layout which will also select them in the family tree.
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Fiendishly clever but it seems to work - thanks
Bob
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I've looked at the results again and what is happening is, put simply, that it selects all ancestors, then discards the females. I perhaps mis-stated my intention which was just to follow, say, the male line.
Using this technique my grandmother is initially selected and also her father and mother. When I de-select the females it leaves my grandmothers father selected although he isn't in my male line.
I also see that selecting ancestors will not traverse between genograms, something I hadn't noticed before where people are hyperlinked between genograms.
I suspect there is no easy way to follow the male line (other than by some scripting jiggery-pokery). Thanks, though for pointing out the potential use of the "invert" and "hide" in table view, something I hadn't considered before.
Bob
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Perhaps one further step is required - if you now select by your last name and discard the others you should be left with the male line, assuming there have been no name changes through the generations  . The problem of selecting through Genomaps still remains unless you first copy everyone into a single Genomap on a temporary basis.
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That approach initially seems attractive, however it falls down on another point - I have a John SMITH marrying a Jane SMITH (not a cousin) at one point so would have to manually exclude her line.
For my purposes (and because there are spelling changes) I think my best approach is to work back a generation at a time, changing the display appearance to indicate the male line (I have already coloured my direct ancestors differently so they stand out).
For anyone doing serious DNA research over a large tree the manual approach is probably not the best one.
Bob
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Hi, is it the same, than the Mitochondrial DNA or Y Chromosome reports by Gedview?
Feri
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Yes - that's what I was aiming at. Gedview, however is rather primitive and you can't create a list from the Y or mtDNA options it offers, just view them on-screen.
Bob
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