I am using Gramps 6.0.1 (I believe) and I am on Linux Nobaru.
Is there a way (either via the base program or through an add-on) to easily delete individuals in Relationships View or Charts? I have searched everywhere and can’t find a way. If I could add a ‘-’ to the toolbar in charts and/or Relationships. I have to be able to go through and see who doesn’t have kids and delete selectively through an entire line.
Deleting unrelated won’t work, as it says they are related. I only just found out otherwise, so the program won’t know that.
…or, if I delete the parents that aren’t actually the parents, would it allow me to delete everyone who isn’t related that way and leave alone the others who ARE parents of those I’m descended from? Conversely, would it just leave them alone because they are “relations” just not direct relations? I just had that thought.
This is likely a couple of hundred people that I need to get rid of, but some of them have other kids that I AM related to. So, just deleting all of the ancestors from one individual would be too much, I think. Unless it stops at people who have other descendants.
No! You can remove a person from a family (either as a child of, or parent of the family) by editing the family and removing the person. This does not delete the person. A person can only be deleted in either the People or Grouped People view.
When I am pruning people like this, I will often add a tag “Delete Record” to the person before removing them from the family. Then I can easily find them in the people view and run a quick filter to find any other person the person I am deleting may also be linked with. I tag these people and continue my search.
Only when I am satisfied that just the people I want to prune are tagged with “Delete Record” do I filter on the tag and actually delete the people.
Once you delete people, you may want to delete the events, etc that were attached to the people.
There is the Remove Unused Objects tool that will select any objects (records in the databases) that are no longer connected to their parent object, i.e. an event attached to a person.
You may need to run it several times. A citation attached to an event will not show in the list to delete until the event is deleted. Same for the note attached to the citation.
A Family record is automatically deleted once all parents and children have been removed from its record.