Yes of course you can do it by unlinking and relinking but the way you do that is important.
If one of the parties to the new relationship has children THEY already have a "marriage". If the children really belong to the new relationship you are adding you must make sure that the person you are adding is added as the other partner of that relationship. I think your problem is that you are going to the John Doe and then adding him to the wife with children and creating a second relationship for her, rather than going to the wife with children and then adding John Doe as the partner for that existing relationship. Do those wives have extra relationships? Cathy At 09:34 AM 24/04/2014, you wrote: >Cathy Pinner wrote: > > Hi Cheryl, > >Hi. > > > > > Did you find they had extra marriages? > >No; they had NO marriage. > > > To avoid problems like this. > >The easy way to avoid it was to have not misread the doc >first time around. > > > > > 1. always attach children to a couple rather than one parent if both > > parents are in the database. If you link to just a mother or just a > > father, you'll create an extra "marriage" for them to unknown. > > > >I had/have no interest in re-keying 50 or so descendants >just because I omitted Brother A's wife and substituted >Brother B's wife. Unlink/link ought to be able to deal with >that. > > > 2. when adding a partner to someone with children, check whether you > > are adding them to the current "marriage" or a new one. If a new one, > > you'll create the 1/2 kids problem. > >Since Brother B had no wife until I tried to link one to >him, this ought not to have applied. > > > Note the checkbox: Add this person to the currently displayed marriage. > >Can't say I've ever seen a checkbox for that; I DO >occasionally, at the whim of the computer, see a question >Add this person as a Spouse to (some name here). > > > > > > Cathy > > > > At 11:28 PM 23/04/2014, you wrote: > >> Thanks, Cathy, but if I'm understanding Problem 11 > >> correctly, it doesn't apply. > >> > >> And, considering what happened just now, it may just be that > >> what I'm doing is causing temporary memory/pointer/poke > >> problems. Which ATC isn't unreasonable. > >> > >> Cheryl > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Cathy Pinner wrote: > >>> Hi Cheryl, > >>> > >>> It sounds as if you are creating extra marriages. Look at the > >>> marriage icon in Family View. How many times does it say the wife has > >>> been married? I suspect you are ending up having her married to an > >>> unknown/blank with the children and then married to the right John > >>> Deaux but not had any kids with him. > >>> > >>> Sounds like the John Deaux may also have two marriages - one with the > >>> kids and no wife and one with the wife and no kids. > >>> > >>> When you add a partner to a person with children, you have to make > >>> sure you are adding them to the right "family". > >>> > >>> There's a good right up on correcting incorrect links at > >>> http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsRelationshipProblems.asp > >>> > >>> I think it's Problem 11 you need to read carefully for the initial > >>> problem you were trying to correct but now some of the others apply. > >>> > >>> Cathy > >>> > >>> > >>> At 12:38 AM 23/04/2014, you wrote: > >>>> Occasionally I go to change a spouse who has been > >>>> erroneously linked with the wrong John Deaux. > >>>> > >>>> EACH time I do that, the right John Deaux vanishes, leaving > >>>> me with the right wife and the right children, but no Daddy. > >>>> When I pull up Deaux-dad, the wife isn't there, but the > >>>> kiddles are all showing as 1/2s. If I close the program and > >>>> re-open, it corrects itself -- until I edit any of the > >>>> children, and try to go back to the parents of whom only the > >>>> right wife is showing. It gets tiresome. > >>>> > >>>> What the /flip/ am I doing wrong here?!? > >>>> > >>>> Running 385 (because I haven't had time to d/l an update > >>>> over dial-up) on win7 32-bit home. > >>>> > >>>> Tnx > >>>> > >>>> Cheryl > > > > >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 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
