Ancestry.com Import creating Unnamed Spouse
Posted: 11 Apr 2022 00:31
Hello. I'm a new user of Family Historian and I just wanted to share this issue/resolution with the group. I downloaded my family tree from Ancestry into Rootsmagic and then imported the RM tree to FH. That all worked great but later when viewing a descendent chart I notice quite a few people showing duplicate marriages with an unnamed person, and the 'Spouse' area of each persons data pane showed an extra tab with <no spouse>. After some investigation I realized the cause was multiple marriage events in Ancestry.com or a marriage event where the spouses were not linked. The FHUG knowledge base offers a solution under the heading "How to delete no spouse tab" (thank-you Tatewise) but I had so many instances that I decided to fix the errors in Ancestry and then re-import my data. Attached are a couple of screenshots to illustrate this problem and solution. There is so much to learn but I am slowly working my the FH manual and this knowledge base is a great resource.
Here is a snippet of my descendent report Looking at Ancestry, this marriage event is only linked to one spouse Open the event and click the radio button to link spouses
Here is a snippet of my descendent report Looking at Ancestry, this marriage event is only linked to one spouse Open the event and click the radio button to link spouses