I replied to a post by Rebecca Irene Poole on the FamilySearch community
forum for Family Tree. Her post goes like this:
*A better way to add existing parents*
When I add existing parents to someone in my tree, I have added one
parent and then tried to add the other and get an error message that
says this relationship already exists. I have figured out that I
must edit the relationship to add the other parent. This is not at
all intuitive to me. I think it would be a good idea if when you
search and find one parent, it gives you the option of adding an
existing spouse of that person or a new spouse. I think that would
be much easier to understand.
I want to ask the folks on the list, and the Legacy support folks if I
could be wrong about what I said in my reply. Please tell me I'm not
wrong about it. :-)
Here is what I posted as a reply
I think Rebecca's suggestion is an exceptionally good one. She makes a
very valid point. Moreover, without that option, other difficulties are
created. For example, without that option, *third-party software* does
not have a way to add the other parent to an existing relationship
created by adding the first parent. The result is always (and maybe
forever) that a 2nd parent box is added with the child listed once under
both parents, and once under a box with only the 2nd parent that was
added. Each and every time that happens, we are obliged to enter Family
Tree, and delete the extra relationship. I think that this is not just
an irritation, it is a bug in the FT software. That should be fixed,
not in the 3rd party software, but in Family Tree. Can we be any more
clear in pointing out that the Family Tree database software is not
altogether meeting requirements?
Joseph Leavitt
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