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Two sisters married two into the same family
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Andy | Report | 22 May 2005 23:14 |
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Hi how can I contect the father of the two sisters as the same person. Whcih ever way i try to list the people I am left with not being able to contect a person to a family member who already exists in the tree. Any help. Thanks andy |
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Mandy | Report | 22 May 2005 23:23 |
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I've had this and with woman marrying late sisters husband. I've ended up putting someone on twice eg Once as daughter and once relating to marriage. Not ideal but I can't work out another way, hope someone else can. Mandy |
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Treetective | Report | 23 May 2005 09:39 |
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I have had a brother/sister from one family marry a sister/brother in another family happen twice in separate lines of my tree. Genes does not allow for this and let you show the one set of parents for each, as it were (afaik), but some of the commercially available Family Tree computer programmes do. I recently downloaded a trial version of Genbox 3.4 and it copes with same no problem (also copes well with adoptions, step families etc). So, think you have to work within the limits of Genes, bearing in mind it has lots of different advantages such as contacting others searching same name/s and supplement with a good Family Tree programme as well. |
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Alice | Report | 23 May 2005 10:31 |
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i thought my g/grandfather married two sisters but turned out to be they were sisters in law |
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Patience | Report | 23 May 2005 13:01 |
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I have same - brother & sister married sister & brother of another family on two separate branches of tree. My own software at home copes OK, emailed genes to see if theirs would, and answer was not yet, so still waiting. My solutuion at the moment is not to show them as husband & wife, except in notes and attach children to father's family. Alternative is to have them on twice. JJ |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 23 May 2005 13:18 |
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There's no way of doing it on this site. According to GenesReunited, two sisters of one family can't marry two brothers of another family, also 1st cousins can't marry each other, etc etc (or - at least, you can't represent these relationships on the rather basic tree that GR provides us with). The only way to do it on here is to double up all the relations on both relevant branches. If you use software such as PAF, Family Tree Maker, etc, then you can export your data to a Gedcom file, then upload that Gedcom file to this site. When imported to this site, the ancestors of each of these ''double connections'' will be automatically entered twice on your Genes tree - much, much easier than typing all the info twice manually! Richard |
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