How to Fix a Relationship

Don’t you just hate it when a relationship fails? I mean you work real hard to make everything work just right and then this happens.

Oh, I’m sorry, my last blog was Kiss and I guess you thought I was writing about Love.

Well in a way I am, I love Genealogy and want to get the family tree relationships to work out.

But I am having relationships problems as slide 1 of 41 will show.

Somehow in creating the tree I ended up with two (2) fathers and a son who is not in the main branch.

I could remove the one father but then the son would also be deleted.

or I could remove the other father but then the five (5) children would be deleted.

But there is a solution and the first thing I do is check to see the up line. If I am to remove someone I have to make sure others don’t get removed along with them. In this case neither of the fathers has an up line so I can proceed.

We will first move Albert from one father to the other; fix the relationship.

We want Albert to be part of the larger family and it is easier to move him than to move each of the five other children.

We mouse over Albert’s picture and get a panel where we can click on Albert’s profile page button.

And we bring up his Profile page.

Here on his profile page we make a note of who is listed as his father.

We want to EDIT the relationship.

So when the edit page comes up guess what we select

we click on relationships

We now have the relationships page

and we see who is listed as the father.

we first want to add an alternate father

This brings up a screen where we could type in new information but we already have a father

So we Select from list

and a list of all the people on the tree comes up.

lucky for me that this is a small tree; we find the father we want to add

Since I wrote down the names I know what I have to do

I will Select Spence, William

and we get the relationships page again but now Albert has two fathers.

We can now remove one of the fathers

and we know that William Benjamin Spence has to go, so we hit Remove

and we get this panel telling us that we are just removing the person

We say OKAY! and get taken back to relationships page

and now Albert has only one father on the relationships page

and we are DONE with this part of the relationship problem.
We could stay on this page and make other changes if we wanted to but since all we wanted to do was change the relationship we hit done.

We are now back on Albert’s profile page.

and we see that the new father is listed

but we want to see his family tree to make sure

And so we see he is now part of the large family under one father

We can now go ahead and delete the second father who shouldn’t be there.

so we mouse over his picture and get this panel

and go into quick edit

and we get this panel which allows us to do stuff

but all we want to do is delete him

again we are given a second chance to change our minds

but we know we what him gone so we hit OK

So now we see that we have fixed the bad relationship

We went from the messy relationship to a nice clean one.

Now that wasn’t so hard was it?

It sure beats having to buy flowers and go through a big make up scene.

I hope that you will be able to fix your troubling relationships using these HOW TO steps.

Thank You.