You made me rethink there Anne, but they WERE first cousins....................the slip was in what I wrote...............should have been - two Alabaster brothers married two Agass sisters whose CHILDREN married ( one male Alabaster and a female Alabaster)............ sorry to have confused you. Laraine -------------------------------------------------- From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 6:49 PM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > Firstly, thank you Adrian. You are far more advanced than me, the > stretching, moving and pulling fills me with terror! > > Larraine, these are not first cousins, it is the great grandparents of the > couple who are the same. Yes, I too have admired the swoops. > > I think I am after the unobtainable! I usually do an ancestor tree as it > cuts out all the siblings and takes up less space. I was trying to save > time. I will do a descendant tree and hide the siblings, which will > probably > take less time in the long run. > > It is a good job that my new contact is descended from Susannah, and not > her > sister Emma, who married yet another distant cousin! They are all Duncalfs > of course. > > On another matter, I think I have finally got to the bottom of creating > new > facts!! It's only taken me two years so perhaps one day I will be able to > put two trees together, and do other more complicated things. :-) > > Thanks for the help everyone. > > Anne > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- >> historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake >> Sent: 30 December 2011 18:12 >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Laraine Hake" <laraine10@btinternet.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 6:01 PM >> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram >> >> > Hi Anne! >> > >> > Your query gave me cause to look at Alabaster tree on FH. As you may >> > recall, I have only recently imported it from Pedigree to Family >> Historian >> > and had not have not had time (a lifetime?) to check it all out yet. >> > >> >snip> >> >> > This moved me on to what must be the most difficult scenario (unless >> > someone >> > reading this knows better...........) two Alabaster brothers married >> > two >> > Agass sisters whose grandchildren (a male Alabaster and a female >> > Ala........ >> baster) >> > later married >> > snip> >> >> and when checking it as a descendant tree from the common Alabaster >> ancestor, (the gt grandfather of the eventual offspring ), I found that >> the >> sons are shown just once, as brothers, and the eventual offspring just >> once, >> on their father's side. The father and mother do appear twice (the >> second >> time as spouses of each other) and once again are linked by the coloured >> swoop. >> >> Pretty smart all in all. >> >> I do like FH so far! >> >> Laraine >> >> >> >> >> > -------------------------------------------------- >> > From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> >> > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 12:12 PM >> > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> >> > Subject: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram >> > >> >> Doing an ancestor tree for someone whose parents were cousins, two >> >> generations up the grandparents are duplicated. I have played around >> with >> >> the options in "Check for duplicates" but cannot get the tree to only >> >> show >> >> the couple once as the parents of the two sons whose grandchildren >> >> married. >> >> Is this possible or will I always have this couple in twice? >> >> >> >> Anne >> >> >> >> Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society >> >> >> >> Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 >> >> >> >> http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html >> >> >> >> Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index >> >> >> >> http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ >> >> >> >> Lincolnshire Family History Society >> >> >> >> http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> >> 'unsubscribe' >> >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- >> USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

That's OK Laraine, I was pretty confused already! Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- > historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake > Sent: 30 December 2011 21:48 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > > You made me rethink there Anne, but they WERE first > cousins....................the slip was in what I > wrote...............should > have been > - two Alabaster brothers married two Agass sisters whose CHILDREN married > ( one male Alabaster and a female Alabaster)............ > > sorry to have confused you. > > Laraine > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 6:49 PM > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > > > Firstly, thank you Adrian. You are far more advanced than me, the > > stretching, moving and pulling fills me with terror! > > > > Larraine, these are not first cousins, it is the great grandparents of > the > > couple who are the same. Yes, I too have admired the swoops. > > > > I think I am after the unobtainable! I usually do an ancestor tree as it > > cuts out all the siblings and takes up less space. I was trying to save > > time. I will do a descendant tree and hide the siblings, which will > > probably > > take less time in the long run. > > > > It is a good job that my new contact is descended from Susannah, and not > > her > > sister Emma, who married yet another distant cousin! They are all > Duncalfs > > of course. > > > > On another matter, I think I have finally got to the bottom of creating > > new > > facts!! It's only taken me two years so perhaps one day I will be able > to > > put two trees together, and do other more complicated things. :-) > > > > Thanks for the help everyone. > > > > Anne > > > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- > >> historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake > >> Sent: 30 December 2011 18:12 > >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > >> > >> > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------- > >> From: "Laraine Hake" <laraine10@btinternet.com> > >> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 6:01 PM > >> To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > >> > >> > Hi Anne! > >> > > >> > Your query gave me cause to look at Alabaster tree on FH. As you may > >> > recall, I have only recently imported it from Pedigree to Family > >> Historian > >> > and had not have not had time (a lifetime?) to check it all out yet. > >> > > >> >snip> > >> > >> > This moved me on to what must be the most difficult scenario (unless > >> > someone > >> > reading this knows better...........) two Alabaster brothers married > >> > two > >> > Agass sisters whose grandchildren (a male Alabaster and a female > >> > Ala........ > >> > baster) > >> > later married >> > snip> > >> > >> and when checking it as a descendant tree from the common Alabaster > >> ancestor, (the gt grandfather of the eventual offspring ), I found that > >> the > >> sons are shown just once, as brothers, and the eventual offspring just > >> once, > >> on their father's side. The father and mother do appear twice (the > >> second > >> time as spouses of each other) and once again are linked by the > coloured > >> swoop. > >> > >> Pretty smart all in all. > >> > >> I do like FH so far! > >> > >> Laraine > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------- > >> > From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> > >> > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 12:12 PM > >> > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > >> > Subject: [FHU] Help with duplicate ancestors in diagram > >> > > >> >> Doing an ancestor tree for someone whose parents were cousins, two > >> >> generations up the grandparents are duplicated. I have played around > >> with > >> >> the options in "Check for duplicates" but cannot get the tree to > only > >> >> show > >> >> the couple once as the parents of the two sons whose grandchildren > >> >> married. > >> >> Is this possible or will I always have this couple in twice? > >> >> > >> >> Anne > >> >> > >> >> Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > >> >> > >> >> Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > >> >> > >> >> http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > >> >> > >> >> Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > >> >> > >> >> http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > >> >> > >> >> Lincolnshire Family History Society > >> >> > >> >> http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ------------------------------- > >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> >> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > >> >> 'unsubscribe' > >> >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> >> > >> > > >> > ------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' > >> > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- > >> USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- > USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message