Philip Hunt

I am using v6.12.000, but turning off the cue cards fixed it. Thanks

Philip,

 

For future reference, there is an option using the Advanced Wizard for GEDCOM import to 'Assume marriage of parents' (STEP 5 - GEDCOM Options 1) which would have created the Marriage tags you are 'missing'.

 

You can find such people with a filtered List of People report.

Filter

# of children > 0 AND

# of Marriage Group tags = 0 END

 

This could miss situations where both of the spouses had more than one marriage but should catch most cases.

 

Jim

Ahah. Thanks

When I try to create a custom button on the Custom Toolbar Manager, when I click on OK, I get an error message that says "Alias 'ITEMS' is not found ... 29FRMCUSTOM2.MSAVEBTR". I am offered Abort/Retry/Ignore. Retry just gets me the same error. Ignore brings up a second error message. "Variable 'LEVEL' is not found"... and further error messages if I continue.

I tried closing TMG and restarting. Same problem.

I set up Related-By Flags following "Terry's TMG Tips" and nicely accented the records. Now I can see how records are related to me. I wonder if there is a way to produce a Relationship Report using these Flags that would track between me (as the base record) and any person on my database who was not in my direct line but related by marriage. Or preferably from the last person back to me.

Philip

I imported my dataset from Reunion via a GEDCOM and later found that many of the spouses were not linked with a marriage tag. I usually discover this when I am looking at a child record that shows both mother and father, but when I go to either mother or father, their spouse is not connect. Of course, when I find these, I fix them. Is there a way to find all the missing marriage tags? Say, produce a report that shows records that have the same children, but appear not to be married?

Philip

I use this exact system to indicate my interest in particular lines (what is sometimes called Ancestor and Descendant Interest) and for that particular use it works like a charm. I am not sure what the original poster had in mind; but for me I'd like a report like this that can be mailed to someone to shown the relationship path, for example:

 

Me->My Father->My grandmother->my great grandfather's second wife->her brother->his daughter->her son.

Clearly not a blood relationship but very useful to show how a particular person ties into the intricates of the family tree.

 

I was thinking something like the "Relationship Chart", but with extended capabilities.

 

Again, I may have misunderstood the request of the original poster.

 

Ken.

No you understood me exactly. I'll read the tips link and see if that will work for me.

I've allowed my family tree to get so big (over 5000 records) that sometimes I can't work out how any of these people are related to me. TMG lets me see if they are related directly to me, but what if the relationship is through a number of marriages to my 3rd cousin and his first cousin's husband's sister-in-law? What I need is a way to create a chart, or a list, or something that would let me see how one record was CONNECTED to another even if it were through a series of marriages. Can I do that?

Philip, Boronia, Australia