Brian: I found a fix. I chose the family view with no marriage info. I right-clicked over the marriage block and selected the "Remove the Marriage Link ..." The dialog box told me the link removal would remove one (and only one) of the children from the marriage. I made a note of which child became unlinked and clicked OK. After the unlinking, I used the Add tab to select "Add Son" and just added back the son who was unlinked. Seemed to work. Both kids appear under the same parents, the marriage info is present and each spouse has only one spouse.
Thanks for the help. Dick Felts -------------------------------------------------- From: "Dick and Leslie Felts" <rjfe...@msn.com> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 4:06 PM To: <legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinking Spouses > Brian: > > I chose the family view with no marriage info, then selected one of the > children, moving that child up to the position of "father." The "parent" > icon still shows just "1" indicating a single set of parents. Tried it > with > both children and, just for the heck of it, tried it from the family > screen > where there IS marriage info showing. Same thing. > > I did hover over the marriage block and made a right-click that shows > marriage options but not sure I want to proceed. > > Thoughts? Can I just unlink everybody (husband, wife and 2 kids) from > each > other and somehow re-link them one at a time? > > Thanks. > > Dick Felts > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Brian/Support" <br...@legacyfamilytree.com> > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 2:50 PM > To: <legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unlinking Spouses > >> Access the couple where you say the family view does not show the >> marriage information. >> Go to the children and look at their parent Icon (if there is a small >> number two it means they are children of two sets of parents) >> Go back to the parents and make sure the marriage info is still blank >> Right click on each child and select unlink from parents to remove the >> kids from this family. >> After both children are unlinked Right click with the mouse pointer >> hovering over the marriage info box >> Select Remove the marriage link from the menu that appears. >> This should remove the duplicate marriage and leave the couple with a >> single marriage, both children and the marriage info intact. >> >> Make a backup before you start so if something goes wrong you can >> restore the file. >> >> Brian >> Customer Support >> Millennia Corporation >> br...@legacyfamilytree.com >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >> >> On 18/01/2016 13:13, Dick and Leslie Felts wrote: >>> I have somehow managed to create a double linkage between two married >>> people and I'd like to eliminate it. >>> >>> I'll call the husband John Doe and the wife Jane Smith. Each person >>> appears only once in my family file; there are NOT two John Does and two >>> Jane Smiths. But when I look at the Family Page for John and Jane, the >>> little marriage icon indicates John has two spouses, both named Jane >>> Smith. Similarly, the marriage icon shows that Jane Smith has two >>> spouses, both named John Doe. All of the data for the two Johns is the >>> same and all of the data for the two Janes is the same. Both "couples" >>> have the same two children. The only difference is one couple shows the >>> marriage information I entered while the other couple shows no marriage >>> data. >>> >>> I believe this happened because of intermarriages in my Scandinavian >>> ancestors. I found an ancestor who was related to both of John and >>> Jane's children although separated by 4 or 5 generations. While >>> entering >>> everything into Legacy, I came at John and Jane from two different >>> directions, first from one child and then from the other. Somehow John >>> and Jane became linked twice in this whole process. >>> >>> So how do I eliminate the duplicate linkage but keep the couple married >>> and having two children? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Dick Felts >> >> >> >> >> 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com >> >> 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 >> >> > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > > 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 > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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