Here I am again. You are right in saying that when you go to add a spouse F.O. tells you that this couple is already married. I know because I tried it last night. I have NO idea of how I got these "copies" into my database but on the people list there are no duplicates to merge and although I did import a gedcom a long time ago, these are not the problem people. It concerns people that I, myself have entered and whatever I did, the problem shows up on almost every individual summary! So John has three wives and sets of children, all the same but listed three times! I unlinked his wife last night and she and all her ancestors disappeared from the tree, scary, so I put her back in. Maybe the only way to fix this mess is to delete and re-enter. But there is only one marriage to delete and yet when I create an individual summary THREE marriages show up! I made this mess (somehow)and now I can't get out of it. Even my grandmother has her parents show up twice on her individual summary. I take full responsibility for having done this, probably late at night (trying to think of an excuse) but I would LOVE to undo it and not have almost every individual summary show the families two or three times. I wonder if I entered parents one time and maybe, coming from the other direction, entered children for/of that person's grandparents. That would create duplicate records for the same people but some would have been entered as parents and others as children. I don't even know if anyone can understand what I'm talking about now and I'm getting more confused as I write so had better stop. Maybe later with a fresh mind.... Lois >In a message dated 7/18/2002 8:44:13 AM Mountain Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > >>So what's with this "cannot create that condition from within FO"? > > >> > > > > > >Wayne is talking about adding marriage "events". He is talking about > > linking > > >two people together as a couple more than once. Try this... > > > > > >1. Highlight a person in your database that has a spouse > > >2. Click the "Add spouse" button > > >3. Select "Link to an existing person" > > >4. Try to select the already linked spouse as a new spouse > > >5. FO will tell you these people are already married and won't let you > > link > > >them again. > > > > > >- Bruce > > >http://rootsmate.com > > > > > > > OK, try this... > > > > 1. Highlight a person in your database that has a spouse > > 2. Click the "Add spouse" button > > 3. Select "Add a new person" > > 4. Fill in the same name as the existing spouse > > 5. FO will add this same person as another spouse > >Actually, you are adding another *copy* of that person as the spouse. You >aren't adding the *exact same record* as a spouse again, which is what >Wayne >is talking about. If you do as you suggest above, FO should bring up a >dialog saying you may have already entered that person. If you tell it to >link the person as the spouse, it won't let you do that. > >- Bruce >http://rootsmate.com > > _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com