Family Relationships – Family Historian User Group

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Add People Using a Diagram: Using Family Historians diagram editing feature to add new people into your database.
Change Relationships: How to modify family connections when you’ve gone wrong! Putting the children with the wrong husband, or the family with the wrong cousin
Correct Duplicate Spouses: How to correct problems where the same spouse appears twice
Family Records: This is what Family Historian has to say about Family records: Family records store information about families, and store links to all the Individuals who make up the family
How to Display How Two People are Related: The simplest way to display how two people on your tree are related is to use
How to Find and Mark Twins: Identifying multiple births can be very helpful
Names, Name Parts and Name Structures: This article attempts to highlight some of the pit-falls involved in recording Names of Individuals – particularly when trying to handle names that deviate from the Anglo-Saxon practice of Given Names followed by Surname, such as: Jo Doe, Mark C
Recording a Civil Partnership: In some respects, recording a Civil partnership is similar to recording a marriage and you should consult that article first; however this article discusses some of the issues involved in recording Civil Partnerships which are a relatively new phenomenon, and need some ingenuity to handle
Recording a Marriage: You may have a Marriage Certificate or a Marriage Register Entry from a Church, Chapel, Synagogue or other religious venue, and want to understand how you record information from that Source
Recording Children in Complex Families: This article was prompted by, among others, a query in Rootsweb
Recording Children with Foster/Adoptive Parents: Many people feel they are researching their family history, not just their genealogy, and foster/adoptive parents are just as important as blood line parents
Recording Credibility of Family Relationships: When researching family relationships it is not always certain that links between people are definitive without further evidence
Recording from a Census Record: Census records are key events that are just as significant as Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death and Burial events, so capturing Census record details is important
Recording Grandchildren: Sometimes the grandparents, or relatives of a person, are known but at the time of recording the parent is unknown or uncertain
Recording Non-Family Relationships: People are connected by more than family
Removing Unwanted Relations: Sometimes unwanted family relations such as Spouses or Children are added by mistake, especially when using the Diagram drag method
Sorting Children, Spouses & Facts into Date Order: When you enter children of a marriage, Family Historian will retain the order of entry unless you tell it different; it does not automatically adjust the order, if each child Birth or Marriage is entered with a Date
View Both Spouses’ Ancestors in Diagrams: If you select only one Individual Record before viewing an Ancestors Diagram, or Ancestors & Descendants Diagram, or All Relatives Diagram then the Ancestors of only that person are displayed in the Diagram