Family Historian User Group

Doesn't happen too often, but when it does...
I had 2 Williams in different parts of the tree, and a suspicion they were the same (so at least one of their relationships was probably mistaken).
Also had an anonymous father, but an idea it was the eventual husband, or some other relative.
Would like a 'built-in' relationship (like marriage) that is automatically reflexive, with diagram visibility.


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Better still, have a diagram option to show suspected identities *linked* in place of spouse(s).

I do like this idea - I have two ancestors overlapping (father son) and various bits of evidence that might apply to either. I also have two burial references that don't quote an age so I have initially set them up as two other individuals. I know that overall there are only two people here, and I really could do with the idea of associating information to the pair. I am sure this only makes sense inside my head![smile]

Here are some ideas for you to think about for the same-name father and son.

1) keep a separate 'Same Name Study' for all the data that might be liked to the same-name father and son -- only put the records which you are certain about into your main file. When you want to look at all the 'maybe' data again, it will be in your other file for reference.

2) make a note in your main file and list all this 'maybe' evidence so you can have a place to refer to it, rather than opening up your other file all the time

3) leave things the way you have them now, but use 'associated person' to link the suspect extra persons to the person you think it is.

Whenever I have records that just don't make sense, I try to work it out in a separate database first. Once I have a better idea what is happening, I can always add it to the main file.

Jan

I think you've got a good system, Jan, that obviously works well for you.

To be honest i'm too disorganised to maintain several systems and try to keep everything in just the one place.

Re. associated person, that's one of my gripes, i'm afraid. It's too invisible. I'd like it to show up automatically on charts and be independently configurable for colour, etc.

Anyway, good to hear your thoughts.