I want to be able to link them as twins on FTM rather than conventional brothers and sisters Jan -----Original Message----- From: mrs d smith Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 6:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NFK] FTM twins One twin I always older. My 2 born 10 mins apart and that is on their birth certificates. Don't know how far back that goes. Dina Jans Mail <[email protected]> wrote: ><!-- .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: >#800000 2px solid; } --> > >Folks, >Can anyone help me to show twins in FTM 12 please? > >Jan > >------------------------------- >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 > ------------------------------- 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

Hi Jan Perhaps I misunderstand your problem, but entering them as born on the same day should not be a problem What were you trying to do that you were unable to? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 26/04/2014 18:24, Jans Mail wrote: > I want to be able to link them as twins on FTM rather than conventional > brothers and sisters > > Jan

I notice noone seems to be answering the question you asked. I can at least try some suggestions. I am only a user of the earlier FTM version (2005), but I would suggest a couple of things you could do, and some of this depends on how you intend to use such indications. 1) If you juest want to record it, then place it as a textual statement in the the "resizable notes" for both individuals 2) If you want to display it on one of the tree diagrams, you need some form of fact to record it. I had an idea there used to be some unused fact fields, but they are not in the version I am using. However there are numerous fact types that you probably never use that could be adapted to this purpose, such as "caste". You then use this consistently only for this event. You can turn off the label that can appear with the event when producing the trees. Write in the comment for the event something like "Twin of xxxx" 3) Having done 2), if you want some form of statistical analysis, then FTM cannot do this, although you could probably fairly easily export the GEDCOM (assuming the event you have chosen is a legal GEDCOM event, and find some way of importing it into a spreadsheet. 4) Not sure how well this one will work, but it is possible to set up relationships that are not marriages, and use one of the unused fact types to describe the relationship. While such a relationship is normally assumed to be male/female, it seems possible to make it happen between two males, or between two females. A word of warning - many records of twins only identify that the individual was one of a pair of twins. The nature or person of the other twin is quite frequently requiring an assumption on the part of the reader. For example, if you see in a baptism register the words twin agains two separate but consecutive rows with the same parents, you are assuming that one is the twin of the other. It is only when one sees somthing like "XXX and YYY, twin sons of AAA and BBB, that you know they are twins of each other. regards Keith Drage Swindon UK On 26/04/2014 18:24, Jans Mail wrote: > I want to be able to link them as twins on FTM rather than conventional > brothers and sisters > > Jan > > -----Original Message----- > From: mrs d smith > Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 6:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NFK] FTM twins > > One twin I always older. My 2 born 10 mins apart and that is on their birth > certificates. Don't know how far back that goes. Dina > > Jans Mail <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <!-- .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: >> #800000 2px solid; } --> >> >> Folks, >> Can anyone help me to show twins in FTM 12 please? >> >> Jan >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >