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!