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how to add second cousins that married ?

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Julie

Julie Report 10 Sep 2003 16:55

Hi, my aunt married her mothers aunts son.Her second cousin? How do i add my aunt and her husband as being married,won`t they both be on my tree twice as they`re already added as relations. Hope some one understands this.It`s difficult explaining ones family mixups. Has any one else soved this problem. Thanks Julie.

Deborah

Deborah Report 10 Sep 2003 17:05

Hi Julie, This is one of the short falls of the GC program,and this is why a lot of us have HAD to load our trees from gedcom files. Once a person appears in your tree, you cannot 'marry' them to someone else already in the tree. Like you say you can only enter one of the names again, but then shows as a 'new' person, and doesn't show the true link in the family. I have, at present, 4 instances of this. Each time I have to delete the tree, and reload the gedcom file. This gives you the added chore of manually entering all the bits GC doesn't pick up, baptism dates instead of birth years etc. Debbie

David_Vickers

David_Vickers Report 13 Sep 2003 12:21

Julie I have had this problem with my Italian ancestors marrying cousins over more than one generation. GC support tell me that it is not currently possible to link the same individual so they only appear once in your tree. The individuals concerned need to be duplicated. On a positive note, GC Support say that they will be looking into this particular area shortly to see if they can find a way around the problem. Fingers crossed!! David

Adrian

Adrian Report 21 Jul 2014 15:42

in 2003:
"On a positive note, GC Support say that they will be looking into this particular area shortly to see if they can find a way around the problem" :-|

Well, has GR sorted out this basic requirement in the intervening ELEVEN years?
This seems a basic requirement that software could handle better than 'linear' Family Trees written longhand on a scroll!

How to put some pressure on GR to sort this out? :-D

Ricochet

Ricochet Report 21 Jul 2014 16:12


I think you'll find, if you check, that the issue has been resolved, although I can't say when, as it happened during a gap in my membership

I rejoined earlier this year and found the new facility in place

When you go to add relatives, you get the option to "FIND EXISTING"