Connie, ...or do you mean that in Family View you try to add an existing child?
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:59:18 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Magically Appearing Unknown Spouses and Parents > To: [email protected] > > > I know this topic has been discussed several times before, in one manner or > another, but I can't come up with the proper search terms to find what I need > in the Archives. > > Yesterday, I attempted to link two individuals who were already in my > database as father and daughter. The father was in my database as a totally > unlinked person (no parents, no children, no siblings, no spouse). The > daughter was an "end-of-the-line" ancestor with many descendants. > > As best as I can remember the sequence I used, I first added a new, named > wife to the father, then attempted to link them to the daughter. But I might > have started with trying to link him to the daughter before entering a wife's > name. In any event, it took several minutes of errors stating things like > "She is already linked to these parents" (which she most certainly was not), > or, "she already has parents, do you want to link to another set of parents?" > before I discovered there was a phantom "unknown" spouse for the father. I > then thought it should be a simple matter of unlinking the daughter from this > phantom marriage, deleting the unknown spouse/marriage, and relinking to the > proper named parents, but that didn't work either without several tries. In > one case, the "unknown" spouse was deleted and magically reappeared again. > > What is causing these "Unknown" spouses to appear? Is there any way to > prevent it? In checking my Marriage List, I see I not only have several > phantom spouses, I have some Unknown to Unknown parents of some end-of-the > line ancestors that I certainly never added. > > This seems to have started in a relatively recent version (maybe from 6.0 to > 7.0?) Is this not a "bug"????? (It is certainly annoying). > > Thanks, > > Connie > _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
