It won't pick the wrong mother unless you added the child to the wrong couple. Always display the correct father with the correct partner, before adding children. If you do add children to the wrong mother (or the wrong father), then remove him from that family, or remove the parents from that child, and add him to the correct family. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Jim Belanger via Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 6:35 PM To: Pat McGrath ; Roots Magic Users Subject: Re: [RMagic] Which line (child) will RM follow ???? It chooses the father. However, be aware that if the father married more than once, the report might pick the wrong mother. . Jim Belanger NH State Representative Hollis, NH www.belangers.us On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Pat McGrath via < [email protected]> wrote: > When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, > and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct > line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? > > > > Guess going backward ME to 'end of line' maybe it doesn't make a > difference > ?????? > > > > Do I only see it looking like it might when I try to follow the line from > the furthest point TOWARD me .. Then which child do I select to follow? > > > > If there are two children from the same family, a male and a female, does > it > choose the male? > > > > Gets confusing as there are multiple children in families and often in > multiple as well as the same family lines . yes, Acadian and French > Canadian > !! > > > > Pat > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- 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 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com