Wayne League wrote: >"Lois Blackburn" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I don't think I can drag & drop in version 7.0 but anyway I don't have >>duplicates in my list so I can't merge anyone. >> > >In FO7 you can do the same thing via gedcom export/import, but .... > >.... If you're sure you don't have any duplicates then it is possible >that you have imported via a gedcom file from another genealogy >program, the same situation we have been talking about in a different >thread where the same two people are linked to two completely >different families, both of which contain the very same people with >the very same record numbers. You cannot create that condition from >within FO ... you can only get it from importing from a gedcom made by >a program that allows such a thing. Here is how you can tell if that >condition exists: > Perhaps I'm not understanding something here, but I just went to a person, at ramdom, and added a marriage to the same person they were already married to, in fact I added three such marriages. No divorces, just four marriages to the same person, with the same record numbers, and it shows up as this person having four spouses, all the same person. So what's with this "cannot create that condition from within FO"? >

"J.D. Kotrla-Chipps" <[email protected]> wrote: >Perhaps I'm not understanding something here, but I just went to a >person, at ramdom, and added a marriage to the same person they were >already married to, in fact I added three such marriages. No divorces, >just four marriages to the same person, with the same record numbers, >and it shows up as this person having four spouses, all the same person. > >So what's with this "cannot create that condition from within FO"? So far, I have not been successful in explaining the difference between completely different family groups and different marriage events in the same family. I will try again. Think of John having two different wives, Mary and Betty. Mary has her own children by John and Betty has her own children, also by John. Let Mary's record number be 100 and Betty's number be 200. They are completely different people and the families each one has are completely different from each other. FO will show these two families as completely different family groups and in the family view, John will have a button above his name which says "other wives" -- that's how you change the family view from Mary's family with John to Betty's family with John. NOW ..... Try to remove Betty from her family and substitute Mary, the one whose record number is 100, as the mother in Betty's family. You cannot do that. FO will not allow it. You can change Betty's name to Mary but the new Mary will now have record number 200 and she will still be a different person from the first Mary the same as Betty was. Having the same two people married to each other multiple times in the same family is different than having the multiple marriages in different families. You can have the first but not the second. You can never even see the same pair of spouses having two different families in FO unless you can find a gedcom file to import it from. And unless you come across such a gedcom file, or manually construct one yourself, you will never have this problem, so there is no need to worry about it. And this is my last attempt to explain this ... and I'm not going to worry about it anymore either. <g> Wayne League