Ward You got it. The Relationship Calculator displays both relationships correctly, but the Set Relationships tool causes the Half Cousin to appear on the Family and Pedigree Pages. This is OK if you have a few, but when you get hundreds of relatives labeled as half cousins because the events occurred a couple hundred years ago it gets very confusing. It seems the direct relationship should take priority over the half relationship. It must be a programming problem.
Thanks, Garl -----Original Message----- From: Ward Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Half Cousins Are you referring to the Relationship Calculator? And the new scenario is that an uncle of yours marries a half aunt of yours? And they are not half siblings of each other? I tested this -- marrying an uncle on my dad's side to a half-aunt on my mother's side -- and found exactly what I expected. The Relationship Calculator shows 2 distinct relationships in the upper panel (Common Ancestors). Clicking on either changes what you see in the lower panel (Descent from Common Ancestor). The first relationship shows the child of this marriage as my first cousin. We both descend from our fathers' parents. The second relationship shows us as half first cousins. We both descend from our mothers' mother (in my case), but that's all -- our mothers do not have the same father. Saying the same thing another way: Your uncle's child is your first cousin and your half aunt's child is your half first cousin. It is the same child, but you are related to it in two ways. Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garl Satterthwaite" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:03 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Half Cousins Ward It is little hard to duplicate, but if my Uncle marries a half Aunt their child appears as a half first cousin rather than a first cousin. To me it should make no difference who he marries their child should be a first cousin. Garl -----Original Message----- From: Ward Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Half Cousins Garl, I'm afraid I don't see the problem. Two half first cousins share one common grandparent (instead of two). Their children are then half second cousins. They can't be full second cousins, since they only have one common great-grandparent. Robert, such a relationship exists in my family (Scenario Two, below). I don't think it is possible as a blood relationship. Legacy will not find any relationship between these two individuals. Scenario One: If A is a half cousin to B, their relationship is through one of B's parents. But B might have a half cousin, C, through the other parent. A and C are only connected via the marriage of B's parents. A is a 'half cousin to a half cousin' of C. Scenario Two: Both of your, say, mother's parents remarried and had more kids. So your mother has half-siblings on both sides, unrelated to each other (except through the marriage of your grandparents). The children of all those half siblings are half cousins to you. Those one one side (say, your grandfather's) are half cousins to you, who in turn is a half cousin to those on the other side (your grandmother's). Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert E. Carneal" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Half Cousins When I enter "halfsies," or "in-laws," or "married-ins," I get pretty unsure of myself when I manually try to determine relationships. Legacy has a wonderful relationship chart that I use a lot, but not really all that helpful when it comes to "step" "half" "in-law" or "married-in." Does anyone have a good cheat sheet defining these relationships clearly? One cousin gave me a relation of "You are a half cousin to half cousin of James." huh? There isn't such a relationship, is there? Thanks. Robert On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Garl Satterthwaite <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find when an uncle marries a half cousin the half cousin label is passed > to the descendents in Legacy. The same is true whenever a any cousin > marries a half cousin. This does not seem to be correct. > > > > Garl Satterthwaite Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp 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/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
