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HELP! I can't make two cousins marry each other...

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John

John Report 3 Sep 2007 14:50

In the 1880's 2 cousins in my tree married, but I cant work out how to put them as married on my tree. Can anyone help?

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 3 Sep 2007 14:55

The GR tree won't let you. You will have to duplicate the names.

You might want to consider using a package such as FTM on your PC. Thus supports multiple relationships, such as the marriage of cousins, rather than adding details manually to GR. Periodically you upload a gedcom to the site to update your treeon here.

Lisa

Lisa Report 3 Sep 2007 15:52

aha this problem seems similar to mine- i have just discovered that two Robinson siblings in my tree married two Walden siblings and now i have duplicate records of one person. so just to confirm, there is no way to link the second couple as married in my GR tree?

BrianW

BrianW Report 3 Sep 2007 15:59

There is no way to directly input to link recurring links on GR.

I have the same problem of different generations of the same two families intermarrying.

I use PAF at home and find it very easy to use and it DOES support multiple relationships.

You could use it to carry out Titus's tip.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Lisa

Lisa Report 3 Sep 2007 16:27

OK thanks Titus and to you too Brian. I'm just downloading PAF now so I will have a go, it sounds fairly simple now it's been explained. Thankfully I won't have to type 200+ people's details out again then...I think I'd just have had to live with the problem!

Lisa

Lisa Report 3 Sep 2007 18:36

Bit of trial and error and I managed to merge the records and import the new file...success! Thanks again.