Graham wrote:
> Jack
> There has been a lot of rather amusing (to me) discussion of your problem
without anyone seeming > to give you the correct succint advice.
> If you have a marriage link that you do not want (in this case the link
without children) simply go to > the Marriage List > Options > Remove
Marriage Link. That's it -- no Merging, no Deleteing,
> nothing like that.
> Cheers
Of course if all Jack wants to do is unlink someone, you are correct.
However, there are two problems with this approach.
1) It will leave an unlinked person floating around in the database.
If that's not a problem then fine. But Jack could come back to his file
at some future date and wonder what this person is doing in his file. Of
course the unlinked person could be deleted from the database.
2) Without merging some information may be lost if the unlinked
person is deleted. I guess the main things that would be lost are events
on one of the person's entries that are not on the other database entries
for that same person.
The reason I asked all those fundamental questions was to figure out
in my own mind exactly what he was trying to do. From what Jack answered,
he has the same person show up as an ancestor of his father and of his
mother.
Unlinking one wife will not leave his database in what I would call the
correct
state. Because there are two entries for the same person, the entries
should be merged using Legacy's manual merge process after doing
an appropriate file backup. This will allow the links to be set properly
to show that this woman is a common ancestor of both of Jack's parents,
and that therefor his parents were cousins -- distant cousins perhaps,
but cousins nevertheless.
jr
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