I want to create a Descendant Diagram for my grandmother to show her whole extended family. The problem I have is that some of her children/grandchildren have been married more than once and I want to hide their ex partners without hiding the children of the marriage (the living are much more difficult than the dead!)
I will demonstrate the problem with some Diagrams from a test file. This is the entire family showing John and Mary Brown's son Andrew with his two wives and one child by each. I created the family with just John Brown, opened a Descendant Diagram and dragged to add all the others as on the left below. As he has divorced Catherine I then hide her on the Diagram to get the one on the right where I can still see Brian, which is what I want.
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However if I now go back to John Brown's record and create a new Descendant Diagram I get the Diagram on the left below with Andrew's wives either side of him (which is what is set in the Spouse layout options in Diagram Options). If I now hide Catherine in this Diagram Brian gets hidden as well, as on the right.
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Does anyone know why this is happening and I how I can make it so that I just hide the ex partner but still show the children of the union? I have the same problem for several of my grandmother's descendants so I need a generic solution not just one for this particular case.
For reference these are the Diagram Options.
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