Being one's cousin isn't that big a stretch. Consider the following ...
Many, many years ago, when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow, pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter, with flowing hair of red. My father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed. This made my dad my son-in-law, and changed my very life. Now my daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife. To complicate the matters worse, although it brought me joy. I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy. My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad. And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad. For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother To the widow's grown-up-daughter who, of course, was my step-mother. Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run. And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son, My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue. Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandma too. If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild. And every time I think of it, it simply drives me wild. For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw. As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!
At 2004/08/02 07:50 PM, you wrote:
Just my 2 cents for what it is worth. How can one be a cousin to oneself since relationships are amongst 2 different people??? Is it because 2 brothers married 2 sisters and then decided to switch partners and have children with their partners too? I can't comprehend being a cousin to oneself.
Donna
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 2, 2004 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Version 5, 1 Aug04 Relationship Calulator
Hi, Lill Ann, I'm going to weigh in here. You wrote: "As an example, my gr gr grandmother was married twice. Her second marriage was to a person who is a 2 cousin rx4 (relationship to me). She had two children. They both show correctly as Half great grandaunt, but both of them also married (relationship to me) 4 cousin r1 and 2 cousin r3. Both had children. All of the children display relationships based on the 4 cousin and 2 cousin relationships NOT from my half great grandaunts."
Earlier today I posted a problem wherein Legacy could not find the 3C1R relationship between my brother-in-law and his son. The source of the problem appears to be that Legacy is not programmed to find multiple relationships for the same individual, i.e., my brother-in-law is a 3C to himself and it is from that he is a 3C1R to his own son. For example, in the relationship calculator enter yourself on both sides of the dialog box. You'll get an error message.
I am certainly no programming expert, but I suspect that you have a similar problem, i.e., it is not that Legacy can't find half-relationships, rather somewhere in your data I've quoted, that "Joe Brown" is a cousin to himself and it is at that point the relationship calculator is failing.
Permit me to make a suggestion. (I realize that you've complained about this since v2.) Export a stripped GEDCOM with only names and dates/places of b/m/d. Send that to tech support with a detailed message, including names and RINs, of where Legacy is correctly finding the relationships and at what point the calculations fail.
Ken did tell me that this issue is a priority and the more detailed data everyone can provide, the quicker the problem can be resolved. Jon Raymond St. Paul Park, MN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond
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