need help with diagram and multiple spouses

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 15 Feb 2009 19:58

My turn to ask a very basic newbie question. For the most part, I don't work with diagrams, so I've done very little with those features so far.

I keep separate mini 'one-name-studies' files for family groups that may or may not be related to people in the main database.

This test database has six people in three family groups - a woman and her first husband and their two children, her second husband and his father.

When I do an 'everyone' diagram, I get two instances of the woman with a yellow ribbon connecting the boxes.

Is there any way to nudge FH into showing both these families next to each other?

I've seen other charts in books which have a box for husband 1 on the left, the wife in the middle, and husband 2 on the right. Since the children are listed as step-son and step-daughter in the household of husband 2, it would be useful to see them next to each other.

I have no evidence that husband 2 adopted the children - in the census record they keep the surname of husband 1.

What's the best way to produce a nice diagram with the two spouses on the same horizontal bar?

Thanks.

Jan

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 15 Feb 2009 21:38

Try selecting the Woman and her second husband, using the CTRL key to select both and then try an all relations diagram.

rodit · Post by **rodit** » 19 Feb 2009 05:48

If you select the woman in the Records page, then hit the descendants icon, it should show her with a husband on each side and their respective children. I have an ancestress who married 3 times and the respective families all show on the diagram.

Cheers

Roger

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 19 Feb 2009 16:34

Using Roger's method, I was able to see the diagram I expected -- the woman in the center with her first husband on the left, her second husband on the right, and the children below.

Using Jane's method, after selecting the wife and husband #2, I pulled down the diagrams menu, and all the selections were greyed out except for the 'Everyone' diagram. That produced the diagram with the two family groups and the yellow ribbon connecting the two boxes of the wife.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Jan

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 19 Feb 2009 17:06

Jan, you should be able to do a diagram based on any spouse pair, I did just double check it. Try selecting the family record and see if you get on any better.

jmurphy · Post by **jmurphy** » 20 Feb 2009 04:31

Selecting the family record in the Records Window and then going to the diagram still gets me the 2 boxes for the wife connected by the yellow ribbon.

However, if I click on one of the boxes for the wife while I am in the diagram view, as Roger suggests, I get the side-by-side spouses.

It's interesting to see the different behaviors depending on how you start out.

Thanks again for the comments.

Jan

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