* Gay relationship

[Jessie 888]

I'm preparing a family tree for my cousin's 40th and I'm having a problem with the wording on his diagram/PDF. It was easy enough to add his husband's name and their date/place of marriage in 2014 but on the diagram it says he's his 'partner' and I know they will want it to say husband. (And having been together for nearly 20 years, I don't blame them!) Is there an easy way to change the relationship wording on the diagram? In an ideal world, I'd also like to add their civil partnership in 2006 but I'm not sure how to customise a fact for that and/or show it on the diagram too?

[Jane]

Which text scheme are you using? The ones I have looked at say Spouse so you might want to check the scheme.

[tatewise]

Yes, without knowing your Diagram Options customisation it is difficult to advise.
The default Installation Settings do not mention spouse/partner/husband/wife at all.

What General tab settings have you chosen for the Spouse display/layout options?

What Text tab Text Scheme have you chosen, and how is it customised?

The easiest way to add their civil partnership is to add another Marriage Event dated 2006.
The other options include using the standard Marriage Contract Event or creating a custom Civil Partnership Event.
When we know what Text Scheme you are using, and which Event you have chosen, the necessary customisation can be explained.

BTW: Are you sure you are talking about a Diagram and not a Family Group Sheet Report which is the only place I have found where Husband/Wife is replaced by Partner for same sex relationships.

[Jessie 888]

I shall attempt to upload an attachment snip of the text scheme!

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Thank you, Jane and Mike. I wish I was better at explaining ... and using ICT! From what I can remember, I made a custom text scheme cloned from another one? It shows birth, baptism, occupation, death, burial and relationship to root. It all looks just how I want it apart from that one word. The General tab settings for the Spouse display/layout options just says spouses in own box, 2nd spouse on other side?

[Jessie 888]

Forgot to say, Mike, yes it's definitely a diagram not a family group sheet. I'm planning on sending the PDF to the printers to be printed out on one long roll ... if it works!

[tatewise]

OK, that is a lot clearer.
I guess you have set yourself as File Root.
Then your cousin is shown as cousin and his husband as cousin's partner.

One solution is to remove the Relationship to File Root item from the Text Scheme altogether.

Alternatively, you need to Edit that Relationship to File Root item and set its Template expression to:

=TextIf( Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) = "cousin's partner", "cousin's husband", Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) )

Copy & Paste from here to that Template box.
(If you have a label to left of original =Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) then you can keep that label.)

That says: If text of Relationship() = "cousin's partner" then use "cousin's husband" otherwise use Relationship() text.

It should work unless you happen to have another cousin's partner on the Diagram that you want to be left unchanged.

Check the advice in how_to:creating_a_single_page_pdf_of_a_diagram|> Single Page PDF of a Diagram but the default settings should be OK.

[LornaCraig]

Jessie, as this is being prepared for your cousin's 40th birthday and you refer to it as 'his diagram/PDF' I guess it is quite likely that you have set the file root to be your cousin.

If so, in Mike's template expression "cousin's partner", "cousin's husband" would need to be "partner", "husband".
Incidentally this avoids the problem of there being any other cousin's partner for whom the text needs to remain unchanged.

[tatewise]

I thought of that possibility, but ruled it out, because then Jessie's cousin would be unsatisfactorily called root and that was not mentioned.

A screenshot of a snippet of the Diagram including your cousin would help sort things out.

[Jessie 888]

Thank you all very much for your replies.

Lorna, you were quite right in me recording my cousin as the root ... but now I'm a bit worried when Mike says that would be unsatisfactory?!

Mike, I wish I could include a little snip of the diagram but the only part with a problem involves living people which I'm told I can't show for privacy reasons.

I shall have a go at that formula/expression thing after I've steeled myself with a strong cup of tea. Failing that, I'll Typex out the offending word on the printed diagram!

[tatewise]

You are correct about not posting a Diagram snippet of living people, but you could redact the details just leaving the Relationship to File Root.

I only say root is unsatisfactory, because I imagine you would not want your cousin referred to as root. Please confirm that the Diagram says root for you cousin and partner for his husband. All other relationships will be relative to you cousin.

So with the assumption your cousin is designated as root and his husband as partner, then the rather more compex Template expression needs to be:

=TextIf( Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) = "root", "birthday boy", TextIf(Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) = "partner", "husband", Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1) ) )

That replaces root with birthday boy and replaces partner with husband, leaving all other relationships alone.

[Jessie 888]

Thank you very much for your help, Mike, but my IT skills are just not up to the job. I kept the label on the left as you suggested, then copy-and-pasted your expression into the template ... but now the labels say 'mothermother' and 'brotherbrother' and 'rootbirthdayboy' and 'partnerhusband'! Thank you for your help and expertise but I know when I'm beaten. My cousin will be happy to be called the root ... and he'll laugh when I show him this thread which at least shows that I did try my best!

[tatewise]

You are almost there Jessie. Don't give up.
I suspect what you think is a label is actually the original =Relationship(FileRoot(),%INDI%,TEXT,1)
So just delete that leading part up to the =TextIf... that you pasted in.

You should be left with only my Template expression you Copy & Pasted from here.

[Jessie 888]

Yay, it worked! Thank you so much, Mike, you're a genius! It looks just perfect now.