I can't help you, Jack, but I can certainly commiserate with you. I had
a similar experience wherein I knew the wife's first name (and had her
linked to her parents), and the first names of her three sons. When I
learned the wife's married surname, added it to the wife, and then added
the husband, the program didn't recognize the sons as being his. While
there is some logic in that, in hindsight, the situation likely occurred
because I put the husband's name in the Unknown box beside the wife
rather than right clicking on the wife and then adding a husband, but had
I gone that route, I reasoned, there would have been two marriages, one
to the husband, another to Unknown. I then added the husband's surname
to the children and it still wouldn't link the existing children to the
husband
and father. The program recognized the children as being those of the wife
only. And then I experienced what you have described--no matter what
you do you end up with either multiple links or the children disappear
altogether. I'm sorry to say I can't recall exactly how I fixed it, but I
believe
the solution was in deleting not the wife, but one of the marriage links via
the Delete option in Marriage List. -- Alice
In a message dated 10/28/2004 8:34:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brenda,
This was my original explanation:
While adding new people, I discover they are already in my database and I
link them as an existing wife or child or mother, etc.
Then it says they are already a wife/mother/etc and do I want to link them
again.
I do.
Now I have a man with two wives of the same name. One has no children and
the other is properly linked to all their existing children.
If I delete one of the wives, ALL of the children/spouse links disappear!
Thanks,
Jack Lane
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