Hi Gloria
The Relationship Calculator is extremely easy to use, once you are
used to it. By default, the Left Person will be your default person. If
you are viewing any other person in the tree then that person will
become the Right Person. Otherwise, from the Select. .... Person buttons
you can decide who are the pair of people that you want to look at the
relationship between them.
If there is a common ancestor above both of them, or potentially
multiple, the display will show the ancestor and its spouse at the top
along with the relationship between the pair. Below that it will show
the descent line from the common ancestor. If there are multiple common
ancestors then they will be listed as the top and you can select them to
show the descent line from them.
If the Right Person is you ancestor, it will only show the ancestor at
the top and the direct line on the left, or potentially multiple
relationships at the top that you can select from.
If there is no common ancestor the display will show Not Related at
the top, with the path from Left to Right on the left and a description
of the relationship on the right.
Also note that at the bottom left you can specify how far apart the
people can be before the relationship is to far away. Personally, I
normally run with the maximum values of 999 Blood Relationships and 10
Non-blood Relationships.
From the Print button you can generate a report to show the
relationship(s and from the Options button you can tag the people in the
relationship.
In your case, if you have multiple marriages between cousins, and at
different generations, then you will be getting these cases of ancestors
being flagged as being nth and n+1th relationships. First you need to
understand how the people involved in the tree are related, by using the
report from the Relationship Calculator and building a map of the tree
to show how the family was built. Secondly, I would be asking the
question of 'is this correct?'.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Gloria DeSousa" <[email protected]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 26/10/2019 14:16:05
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Could my 10th great grandfather give birth to my
11th ggf?
Thank you Cathy. I don't know how I didn't see that before.
Chris, is it possible that the 10th ggf that I mentioned can also be my
12th ggf? If I am understanding the Relationship Calculator correctly,
then he is my 10th on my mother's side, and my 12th on my father's
side. Does it help to know that this 10th, also 12th, gave birth to two
of my great grandparents?
I have difficulty understanding the Relationship Calculator in general.
When I set it for the son who is my 11th ggf, it then shows the son of
this 11th ggf, as my 9th great-great uncle and also as my 11th
great-great uncle. Is that possible?
If my tree is correct, then my parents were distant cousins many times
over according to the Relationship Calculator. Not surprising actually.
I have first cousins who married first cousins. My grandparents were
3rd cousins, and two sisters married two brothers often. Most of my
parent's village are related. I'm sharing this in case it's of any use
to know.
I agree CE. I'd rather have quality than quantity. My wish would be
that bugs are fixed before adding more to fix. I can't see the choices
that you suggest. Probably right in front of my eyes again :-)
Thank you for all your help,
Gloria
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:06 AM Cathy Pinner <[email protected]>
wrote:
Gloria
Re Direct Line in bold.
You set the Direct line from the Tools Ribbon bar in the Family File
Tools section. It says Set Direct Line.
You can set Direct lines all over the place in your tree to aid
navigation when you click beside the child list.
The one you set last is the one that is bolded when you have that
option
set in Options > Customise 3.8
Others have given you ways to check out your relationship issue.
Cathy
> Gloria DeSousa <mailto:[email protected]>
> Saturday, 26 October 2019 5:34 AM
> Hi,
> I have in my tree a 10th great grandfather who's son is my 11th
great
> grandfather. Is this possible? Or is it an error in my tree that I
can
> not find? I set relationships several times.
>
> In addition to this problem, I tried to make my direct line bold
like
> it used to be by clicking on the "Indicate direct line children in
> list (bold)" in 3.8 in Customize. I get a box that says "'Set Direct
> Line' Option from the Tools tab of the Ribbon to enable the bolding
of
> names". I do not see the option "Set Direct Line", at least not in
> those words, but even the choices that come close, do not give me
the
> option to bold. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Gloria
>
>
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