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Hi, I've just purchased GenoPro because I recognise certain potential to solve a problem with my current tree.
I have several cousin-cousin marriages and to establish the links I have had to go back several generations and come back down several branches. Occasionally, I cannot find the link so I have had to trawl all the same surnames in the area to try to find the elusive link.
This has led to a huge number of isolated families [islands]. When trying to extract a sutiable line from my known family, I am having difficulty in selecting the right candidates with the supplied selection tools. I have had to resort to selecting a few people at a time. I then review my choice and add more people to the new map.
My real problem is how to convince the program to recognise & link identical people on the new map. I have tried to overlay the new copies of people on their place in the larger family group but the program will not relink them on the new map. I have also tried the internal hyperlink but cannot get it to respond in the way I want.
I hope that my explanation is clear and that someone can help me.
Dave Fleming, Dublin
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Do you wish a function to find identical people in the family tree?
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Dave
One of the early decisions about GenoPro is that the program would not insert data automatically, so any mistakes are yours. Having made enough wrong guesses myself I think this is the right approach.
In trying to link families, eg after a gedcom import, I use the table and sort on parents. I have not tried this but if you open a table and select the Families menu you can display a Parents column. This will get you back to cousins, if the idea works.
To extract families they can be selected on the table and this will also select them on the Genomap. They can then be moved to a separate map where any links can be made
In the Report Generator you can select a Relationship skin, which would show if two people are related in any way. Not sure if it can be modified to search for relationships.
However all these ideas depend on having the family data and if you have several 'islands' then I suspect you will have to eyeball it
Edited: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 by
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I hope that my explanation is clear and that someone can help me. I am not certain that I understand your problem but will attempt to answer my interpretation of it. It appears that you want to like an Individual, John Smith say, on one genomap with another John Smith on a different genomap who you have discovered, or believe, is one and the same person. The first thing to be aware of is that GenoPro can only have one copy of each unique individual, although there can be many hyperlinks to it. Also there can only be one copy of a family relationship, or marriage. So chose one of the John Smiths to be the 'data source', or master and ensure you transfer any missing data from the other John Smith to it. Typically on one genomap John Smith will be a child and on the other a spouse/partner. The process is easier if you chose the latter as the master. Once the master has all the data, create a hyperlink to it on the other genomap by right clicking and select Move to GenoMap option. Place the hyperlink near the other John Smith. Note the pedigree and family connections this other John Smith has. Delete each pedigree (e.g. child) in turn and replace it by an identical connection to the hyperlinked John Smith. e.g. for a child connection, right click on the hyperlinked JS and choose 'Link as Child' and join the connector to the family line from which you deleted the original connection. Once all connections (normally only one) have been replaced, delete the 'other' John Smith, who now has no connections at all. Ignore the above if this does not match your problem!
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