Bug in Descendant Indented Chart?

[Philip Colmer 0]

I've created a chart and there are a couple of places where the report states "+unknown spouse" where it shouldn't be. There isn't such a person in the data.

 

TMG 7.03 UK edition, Vista 32-bit.

 

--Philip

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

Check the surety settings in the report options. Both 'No Threshold' and 'Include blank surety' should be ticked in order to include everyone.

 

Virginia

[Philip Colmer 0]

Virginia

 

Thank you for this suggestion. Unfortunately, I think you've misunderstood me. It isn't that the chart is failing to include everyone - the problem is that it is including "unknown spouse" where no such person exists in my data. I don't know why it thinks that these additional spouses exist. I don't know if it is a bug in the report or a problem with my database.

 

--Philip

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

The usual cause of 'unknown spouse' in a report is the surety setting. Did you try those settings and still get the problem? Is this a descendant indented chart?

 

Virginia

[Philip Colmer 0]

Yes, I've tried the settings you specified and I'm still getting the problem. Yes, it is the decendant indented chart.

 

Thanks.

 

--Philip

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

Sounds like it could be this - from the TMG mailing list archives:

 

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/r...7-12/1196965950

 

Virginia

[Terry Reigel 0]

Philip,

 

As the thread Virginia referred you to suggests, most likely the "bug" is not in the chart but in your data. The "unknown" spouse, if not caused by the surity setting, is most likely causes by a missing parent for one or more of the children. The parent may be entered in the data, but if there is no parent/child tag connecting them it doesn't matter - the parent is still unknown so far as that child is concerned.