I was on the right track with Set Relationships but Brian got you straight to the report. I remembered way back in my mind having done this a few years ago, printing out a report showing all relationships to one person, just couldn't remember how I did it. The report will get you there in a snap and no, I don't think it will break Legacy.
It's hard to believe but sometimes I'm entering people and someone looks 'familiar'. You wouldn't think that would be possible with 10,000 people to remember. But once I found a 5th cousin in one main line married to another distant cousin in another main line and they didn't even grow up in close quarters. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 7/1/2012 11:00 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > 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: [email protected] > 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€Âpossibly 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/[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 > 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 > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2437/5105 - Release Date: 07/01/12 > > > 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 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
