I can replicate this exactly as you describe!! Linda now in California (was Costa Rica) Monroe County, New York Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys Monroe County, New York History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys -----Original Message----- From: Derk & Lorraine Sherren Sent: Wednesday, 29 January, 2014 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2014 issues Actually there is a pattern, but not what you would expect. It seems even the makers of FTM differentiate between the sexes. Here's what I have noticed (and it works every time). Dad marries twice and has children with both wives. You select wife #1 as the "preferred" marriage. You add children for wife #1 - go to their tree page, then click on the "parent" tab and you are taken back to the preferred marriage. No problem. Then you add children for wife #2. Here's where it get s interesting. I have observed that IF the child is a son (male), when you click on the "parent" tab you are taken back to the correct family, Dad married to Wife #2. Now, if the child is a daughter (female), when you click on the "parent" tab you are taken back to her DAD's page, which will show the "preferred" marriage (i.e. Wife #1). That is where you are seeing the inconsistency. The solution is, while you are adding children to wife #2, temporarily make that marriage the "preferred" marriage. The parent tab will then always take you back to the right mother. After you are done, you can easily switch the "preferred" marriage back to wife #1. It just shows that even in FTM, daughters are "Daddy's little girl" :). Lorraine, in Kingston BJ wrote: Thank you for your comments. I am able to replicate this first problem but only erratically. Sometimes it returns me to the actual parents but at other times it returns me to the Preferred Spousal relationship. I have not been able to determine a pattern to this. I think what is happening is: * when you go to the child level - most times you are returned to the actual parents because the backward link is still in the temporary storage location. * when you go down an additional generational level and you attempt to return up two generational levels, you are returned to the preferred spousal relationship. I suspect the temporary memory storage was over written by the parents of the child and when you attempt to return to the grandparents, it must use the information from the relationship index which points to the preferred spouse. BJ