Cathy Pinner wrote: > Hi Cheryl, Hi.
> > Did you find they had extra marriages? No; they had NO marriage. > To avoid problems like this. The easy way to avoid it was to have not misread the doc first time around. > > 1. always attach children to a couple rather than one parent if both > parents are in the database. If you link to just a mother or just a > father, you'll create an extra "marriage" for them to unknown. > I had/have no interest in re-keying 50 or so descendants just because I omitted Brother A's wife and substituted Brother B's wife. Unlink/link ought to be able to deal with that. > 2. when adding a partner to someone with children, check whether you > are adding them to the current "marriage" or a new one. If a new one, > you'll create the 1/2 kids problem. Since Brother B had no wife until I tried to link one to him, this ought not to have applied. > Note the checkbox: Add this person to the currently displayed marriage. Can't say I've ever seen a checkbox for that; I DO occasionally, at the whim of the computer, see a question Add this person as a Spouse to (some name here). > > Cathy > > At 11:28 PM 23/04/2014, you wrote: >> Thanks, Cathy, but if I'm understanding Problem 11 >> correctly, it doesn't apply. >> >> And, considering what happened just now, it may just be that >> what I'm doing is causing temporary memory/pointer/poke >> problems. Which ATC isn't unreasonable. >> >> Cheryl >> >> >> >> >> Cathy Pinner wrote: >>> Hi Cheryl, >>> >>> It sounds as if you are creating extra marriages. Look at the >>> marriage icon in Family View. How many times does it say the wife has >>> been married? I suspect you are ending up having her married to an >>> unknown/blank with the children and then married to the right John >>> Deaux but not had any kids with him. >>> >>> Sounds like the John Deaux may also have two marriages - one with the >>> kids and no wife and one with the wife and no kids. >>> >>> When you add a partner to a person with children, you have to make >>> sure you are adding them to the right "family". >>> >>> There's a good right up on correcting incorrect links at >>> http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsRelationshipProblems.asp >>> >>> I think it's Problem 11 you need to read carefully for the initial >>> problem you were trying to correct but now some of the others apply. >>> >>> Cathy >>> >>> >>> At 12:38 AM 23/04/2014, you wrote: >>>> Occasionally I go to change a spouse who has been >>>> erroneously linked with the wrong John Deaux. >>>> >>>> EACH time I do that, the right John Deaux vanishes, leaving >>>> me with the right wife and the right children, but no Daddy. >>>> When I pull up Deaux-dad, the wife isn't there, but the >>>> kiddles are all showing as 1/2s. If I close the program and >>>> re-open, it corrects itself -- until I edit any of the >>>> children, and try to go back to the parents of whom only the >>>> right wife is showing. It gets tiresome. >>>> >>>> What the /flip/ am I doing wrong here?!? >>>> >>>> Running 385 (because I haven't had time to d/l an update >>>> over dial-up) on win7 32-bit home. >>>> >>>> Tnx >>>> >>>> Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
