JL: In Wentworth Co., Ontario, ca 1783-1850, families tended to form associations or relationships that lasted over several generations. I'm at my wits' end with James and would like to try analyzing his relationships to see which are through his wives and which might be his own. Yes, it could be tedious, but after 13 years of long distance searching I'm ready for anything. I'll try Brian's suggestion and see what happens. Just hope I don't "break" Legacy!
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: JLB Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 9:40 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How To Identify Relationships? It sounds like, so far, you don't know if James is related to anyone else in your database. You just think he might be. Not close enough for Legacy to know what to do. IF you ever get to the point where you have James related to other people, then Yes I can think of an option or two. Since this might involve thousands of people I don't know if you'd want to use the Relationship Calculator. It CAN be done but gee whiz it would be tedious. Click on the Relationship Calculator and put James on the Left, then you can navigate through everyone he's related to on the right and tag them under 'Options'. Eventually you can print a report. I'm kind of wondering why you'd want to do this. To put myself in similar shoes that would be like wondering who my father is related to. Well, quite a few people. Thousands actually that I know about. All I have to do is put him as Starting Person and find out. Basically, everyone except my mother's side. In other words, try putting James as the Starting Person (Set Relationships) and see who he's related to. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/1/2012 9:10 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > My Legacy database contains a few thousand individuals who are related > to each other by blood or marriage. One of these is my 3rd > great-grandfather (James) whose parents are unknown but whose two wives > are from families in the database. I suspect that James may be distantly > related to even more people in my files since families in his area > tended to intermarry over several generations. Is there any way I can > create a list or report of the individuals in my file to whom James is > relatedâ€â€possibly including his relationship to each? Of course I think > there would have to be limitations to the relationships somehow, since > theoretically he would be distantly related to every one of the > thousands. Is it even possible to do this? > Kirsten 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://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp 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
