Genealogy Chat

This question comes up regularly.

Whilst prgrams such as FTM will support multiple relationships even their reports and printouts will show the individuals separately, albeit with a number against them to indicate the name is duplicated.

Loading a gedcom from FTM to GR doesn't work either. I have brothers marrying sisters and they don't appear correctly when seen on GR.

Quite frankly I wouldn't loose much sleep over it. If you are putting the names directly on GR then enter them twice and put a cross reference into the notes.

Thank you both for your replys I have been looking into getting a new family tree programme and so will make do for now.

"He shall prick that annual blister/marriage with deceased wife's sister" (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iolanthe)

You could have a problem. After my father's eldest sister died her widower married the next sister (who by then had lost her husband) and I had quite a job linking him. In fact he's shown as two separate people and looking at my tree on GR just now the note explaining that these two people are really the same person seems to have got lost.

But if you've got a standalone program such as Family Historian then it should be fairly easy. FH shows him in two separate places on the tree but with a long curving line between them to indicate that it's the same person. So I think it should cope with your situation. I'm not quite sure what would happen, though when you import the gedcom to GR.

I have two sisters who married brothers. How do I link them all up on my tree?

At the moment I have my great great grand mother and her husbands family however when i have researched her siblings her sister married her husbands brother how do I link them so the second brothers parents are linked to the first?

Thanks for any help
tony