Thank you that does indeed seem to be the pattern. It isn't based so much on the gender but rather which box you click on to return. If you click on the parents on the left (normally for the male) you are returned to the birth parents. If you click on the parents on the right (normally for the female), you are returned to the Preferred spousal relationship. BJ On 1/29/2014 8:46 AM, Derk & Lorraine Sherren wrote: > 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 > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >