(Gramps 6.0.3 on Win 11) I have a tree on Ancestry.com which I’ve downloaded as a GEDCOM and imported into Gramps. Problem is my partner and I shared the same tree for a while. We split them so we could each work on our own trees independently. I decided to delete all of her ancestors except the most recent four generations. I apparently didn’t properly delete from the ends working forward to the present. Somehow I’ve ended up with orphan people unconnected to the tree at all. Sometimes there are even isolated mini-trees, 3 or 4 generations that’s don’t connect with anyone in the main tree. I stumbled onto a way to list orphans but I can’t find how to do it again. “Orphan” is not the term used by Gramps in documentation. I want to root out (ha ha) these isolated individuals and tree fragments. Can anyone suggest a tool or method to do this?
Welcome
There is the Not Related tool that will find people, and clusters of people, that are not connected to the main group of connected people and families.
Select yourself as the active person. The tool will find everyone that does not have a link to your interconnected group of people and families. If you have your partner and their family connected to you through an unmarried family, they will be seen by Gramps as connected to you.
Once the tool finds the unconnected people, it will allow you to create a Tag and attach it to all the people in the list.
Once tagged, you can filter on the Tag and delete, or do something else, with the people.
Since you are deleting people, you may also want to use the Remove Unused Objects tool. Just because you have deleted a person does not mean that their events were deleted.
When using the tool, I tend to NOT delete Places, Sources & Repositories even if no current record is attached to it. The tool allows you to deselect object categories.
You may need to run the tool several times. A citation attached to an event will not show as ready to delete until the event it is attached to is deleted. The same for a note attached to the citation.
A nice tool for identifying fragment is yEd diagramming a GEDCOM exported from Gramps.
