Genealogy Chat

I see what you mean now, OC. It will let you add a date like 00/00/1922 for a marriage, but it doesn't seem to let you do that for a birth. The answer is only to put the year of birth on the Details tab, and nothing in the dob section of the Extra Details tab. However, if you import a gedcom from some programs, the dob is automatically entered on the Extra Details tab (PAF5 does this).

OC, As I said on the other thread I too have had many probs and now resort to overwriting it with my FTM. I fiddled with it today to see if Merry was not alone, and boy is she not!! How spooky OC the guy I picked to meddle with was also born in 1821 and it kept asking me for his exact birthday, Oh how I wish I knew it!!! Fuzzy x

Mary Yes, I know what I should do - but its not happening! I had the mother in as Mary Unknown wife of to start off with. When I found her maiden name, I altered Unknown to Bloggs - fine, that appeared linked to her husband, exactly as it should. I then tried to add children and each time I did, it gave them an unknown mother. This hasnt happened before and I too think that you USED to be able to enter 00/00/1821 as a birthdate guess - it wouldnt let me do that, kept honking at me to enter a correct birthdate - I dont know what it is! I'm leaving it for now, my tree is an utter mess. Good job I only park my tree here, dont ever actually refer to it. OC OC

Yes, that's happened to me, and it can't be fixed - as you say, the program's unstable. The only way to fix it is to export to another program, fix the problems and reimport.

When you add a father, the program automatically adds a box for the mother, so you need to enter her details there, not add another mother. To fix the problem when you have two mothers, just go to the parents tab, change the parents, and delete the mother you don't want. You can certainly invent a date of birth when you only have a baptism - I've done that loads of times. I just put in the year on the Details tab and check the 'circa' box.

Hi OC I've had a similar thing happen. Thought it was me. Can't delete as it would mean deleting half my tree. Looks a right mess now. Linda

So could I. It's called a pencil and paper.

Merry The new tree prog wont let you enter an imaginary date of birth,when all you have is a baptism before 1837! Honestly, even I could devise a better programme than this one. OC

Yes, me too. It had me married to my husband ...but also married to one of my distant Australian cousins, 30 years before I was born. My poor husband, not content with a bigamous marriage, was also showing as an orphan. Even though his parents were on there, the lines joining them up were missing. Oh and my Dad's parents were both called Unknown Unknown. Got to laugh otherwise we'd spend all our time crying! Mandy :)

I uploaded a gedcom. About 1 in 10 on my tree now has no date/year of birth, for some random reason I have yet to identify. It is a great excuse for not opening my tree to anyone though! Merry

OC Yes, a bit similar, but I uploaded a gedcom. Still, is has one of my great great grandfathers married to 'unknown unknown', whilst his wife is listed with her parents and siblings totally seperately. That's just one I've noticed. Margaret

Twice I have entered in the last two days, the parents of someone. They are now showing up as hanging from (Mother), not the woman whose name I entered. Looks like the father had two wives, first unknown, second known, and my rellie doesnt appear to have any siblings. Tried to correct it but I cant, cos all are linked to the rest of my tree. This has only happened recently - anyone else with probs? OC

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