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Hello,

I've been looking all over the internet and can't find a single thing pointing to a solution to this:

Basically, a while back (maybe a year or two ago) I found a public gedcom file which had a decent mesh with mine through a relative on my father's side.

Logically, I thought of merging it into mine, since, being related through that person / people, I presumed all people in that tree were related.

Of course, I ended up being wrong, and there was a lot of garbage in there (i.e. people unrelated to the main tree, essentially being several trees in the main file).

Now, i've dealt with it being in there for a while, but it messes up the reporting, saying this Robert Le Shearman from 1281 is the oldest person in my family, when he's completely unrelated and having a whole bunch of Scandinavian lines which have absolutely nothing to do with me.  Any sort of other tool I use it with, everything gets wrong, since unrelated people are calculated to be related to me and it's something that is getting fairly troublesome.

So, my question is:  Is there a tool / program out there that removes unrelated individuals from a Gedcom file, which would correct this issue?

Note: I would do this manually, but I have 7500 people in my file (probably half of which are garbage and unrelated) which would take an eternity to do in that fashion.

Thanks!

Hi Copernicus...same problem, I'm afraid.....

However, this photo shows the corners of the cardboard mount, and the corners are rounded. This probably means it was taken post 1875 or so, as before then the corners tended to be square. Rounded corners made it easier to slip a photo in and out of the pockets in photo albums which were becoming popular in the mid 1870s, as photos became cheaply available...

Cheers,
China

Ok, I do have to add to this that the photo was relatively large, about the size of two tin-types, if that helps.

And, that could be the case, but my entire German side of my family was in America before 1870.

Maybe a relative sent it?

And, what about the clothing?

Hello, I'm new here, so I hope I am following the rules correctly.  Please tell me if I'm not.

So, recently on a site with a number of photos on it, including my family's "home city", which is a small mountain village called Graslitz (modern Czech name: Kraslice) in the Czech Republic, 5km from the border of Saxony, a number of very old photos were posted with no identification at all, barring one which an old article pointed them to being from 1850, when the city commissioned a series of photos of itself (if my German was right). 

I've been able to confirm they are, in fact from the same city, and am pretty sure the date is correct based on clothing and the fact that they resemble calotypes, which did exist at the time, but I was hoping I can get confirmation from the experts here.

Note: If you go back far enough, I'm related to most families in the city, so I'm fairly certain at least some of the people in the photos are relatives of mine, one way or another.

Here they are: