* Families duplicated

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In Family Records I have numerous individuals listed as the sole parent.
I suspect some of these are also included with a spouse? How can I find out if these sole parents are included with a spouse without going through a long list record by record?

[DavidNewton]

An individual can belong to several spouse families both as sole parent and with a spouse. A family record links at most two individuals as spouses together with any children. For example, an individual listed as a sole parent would generally indicate a child with only one known parent, that individual could earlier or later have a spouse with or withour further children. If you attempt to merge these family records then you would be discarding vital information.

David

[tatewise]

To answer your question about finding all family relationships, there are two techniques.

The first technique only works for the Males.
In the Records Window click on the Family Records heading to sort alphabetically.
Then any Males with multiple families will be listed together.

The second technique works for anyone.
For a single parent click on the [+] to expand the record and reveal the Husband or Wife link.
You will also see if there are any Child links.
Select the name to the right of Husband/Wife and click the Display in Focus Window magnifying-glass button in the toolbar top left next to the Home button.
That will show all the families for that person in the Focus Window, including Spouses, Children, and Parents.

Alternatively, you could click the All Relatives Diagram button to get a full family tree.

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Many thanks for your help
Ken